Narrative of the Visit to India of their Majesties King George V. and Queen Mary and of the Coronation Durbar Held at Delhi 12th Decmber 1911

Delhi was captured in the following year ; and before the close of the first decade of the thirteenth century the ascenancy of the Rajputs in India was overthrown and that of the Mohammedans erected in its place. [...] To the persecution of Aurangzeb the Sikhs could oppose only tifearing martyrdom for the great leader whoSIKHS AND MARATHAS was to turn them into a powerful military state had not yet been born ; but the heart of such movements is of greater significance than the head ; and the heart of the Sikhs was already beating true and strong in the seventeenth century against the time when the advent o [...] Meanwhile the task of resisting Aurangzeb called less for a saint than for a man of action ; and such a man appeared in the person of Sivaji Bonsla the son of a chief of no great property in the neighbourhood of the Western Ghauts to the east of Bombay. [...] Dupleix was anxious to make French influence supreme at the court not only of the Nawab of the Carnatic at Arcot tut also of the Viceroy of the Dekhan at Hyderabad ; and the death of both potentates with the inevitable result of a disputed succession gave him the opportunity that he desired. [...] Not content with this Bentinck injured the discipline of the Sepoys still more by abolishing the punishment of the lash in native regiments in the face of unanimous advice to the contrary both from Europeans and Indian officers: Further he threw to the winds the policy of Wellesley and Hastings by abstaining so far as possible from intervention in the internal strife of protected states.