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When Kings Rode to Delhi

1912

Few English readers have ever pesevered from the first to the last of the 220 000 long lines of the Mahabharata which tells of the deadly feud between the five Pandavas the sons of Pandu and their cousins the hundred Kauravas the sons of the blind king Dhritrashtra. [...] I. MAHMUD OF GHAZNI-1000-1030 The standards of the Sultan Mahmud then returned happy and victorious to Ghazni the face of Islam was made resplendent by his exertions the teeth of the true faith displayed themselves in their laughter the breasts of religion expanded and the back of idolatry was broken." —Tarilch. [...] Three hundred barbers were kept to shave the pilgrims who came from all parts of India to the sacred place where the souls of men met after separation from the body where the very waters of the Arabian Sea rose and fell in unending adoration of the Moon-God the Lord of Birth and Death. [...] At the south-east angle of the court like the campanile of some Italian cathedral rises the tallest minaret in the world the Kutb Minar ; begun by Aybek and completed by his successors it preserves the name of the Turkoman slave who founded the Muslim kingdom of Delhi. [...] When Aybek brought his army from Hindustan to crush the Ghakkars the gallantry of Altamish attracted the attention of Sultan Mohammad who saw him ride into the bed of the Jhelum to pursue the enemy " sending them from the tops of the waves through the depths of hell." On learning that this was the lad whom he had forbidden his subjects of Ghazni to purchase he called him into his presence and
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Pages
458
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146254
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Frontmatter
iv-xi Gabrielle Festing view
Prologue on the Road to Delhi
1-8 Gabrielle Festing view
I. Mahmud of Ghazni—1000-1030
9-24 Gabrielle Festing view
II. The Triumph of the Crescent—1191-1206
25-46 Gabrielle Festing view
III. The Slave Kings of Delhi
47-78 Gabrielle Festing view
IV. The Vengeance for Blood
79-94 Gabrielle Festing view
V. Saints and Kings in Delhi
95-118 J.C.S. view
VI. A Flight of Locusts—1398-1399
119-126 Gabrielle Festing view
VII. The Prince who Went to Seek his Fortune—1483-1530
127-154 Gabrielle Festing view
VIII. The Adventures of Humayun—1530-1556
155-202 Gabrielle Festing view
X. The Passing of a Dream—1569-1605
203-228 Gabrielle Festing view
XI. The West in the East—1608-1618
229-256 Gabrielle Festing view
XII. The Love of an Emperor—1606-1628
257-280 Gabrielle Festing view
XIII. Shah Jahan the Magnificent—1628-1658
281-304 Gabrielle Festing view
XIV. The Children of Shah Jahan—1658-1682
305-326 Gabrielle Festing view
XV. The Mountain Rat—1627-1680
327-354 Gabrielle Festing view
XVI. The Great Puritan of India—1658-1707
355-382 Gabrielle Festing view
XVII. The Sons of the Sword—1469-1764
383-404 Gabrielle Festing view
XVIII. The Death-Throes of an Empire—1707-1761
405-430 Gabrielle Festing view
Epilogfue on the Road to Delhi
431-435 Gabrielle Festing view

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