Indian Historical Records Commission Proceedings of Meetings Fourth Meeting Held at Delhi January 1922

Virst because it is typical of the many sieges of Deccan hill forts in which3 Aurangzib wore out the last ten years of his life and mined his army and treasury A detailed study of it will make it unnecessary for the historical student to study the other sieges as the methods of the besiegers and the besieged and the progress of events were very nearly the same in all of them. [...] The brave forlorn hope (including Baji Dafle) were slain for the garrison on clearly seeing the effect of the explosion recovered heart and rushing to the breach out off the heads of the living and the wounded. [...] The main fault of the existing works on the subject lies \in their concentration on the history of the Company's factories in India and their neglect of its influence on the foreign no less than the economic policy of England during the period. [...] The invaluable documents in the Landowne Manuscripts the Harleian MSS and the Additional MSS throw light on the negotiations with the Dutch the extent of its influence on the policy of the Crown the growth of its trade and the opposition it encountered after the Revlution. [...] A comparison of these letters with the Despatches of the Court of Directors to their factors in the East shows clearly enough the extent of Child's influence on the policy of the Company during the last ten years of its stormy history.