The History of India from the Earliest Ages: pt. I. Mussulman rule. pt.II. Mogul empire. AurangzebN. Trübner, 1876 |
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Page 162 - I see people that see thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after thee. Each religion says,
Page 199 - ... departing to his own home. And after he hath slept two hours, they awake him and bring his supper to him, at which time he is not able to feed himself, but it is thrust into his mouth by others, and this is about one of the clock, and then he sleepeth the rest of the night.
Page 171 - The ripening of the grain on the fields, of fruits and vegetables, the illumination of the universe, and the lives of men, depended upon the sun. Hence it was but proper to worship and reverence this luminary...
Page 208 - ... things very affably. No business of state is done anywhere but at one of these two last places, where it is publicly canvassed, and so registered; which register might be seen for two shillings, and the common people know as much as the council; so that every day the king's resolutions are the public news, and exposed to the censure of every scoundrel. This method is never altered unless sickness or drink obstruct it; and this must be known, for if he be unseen...
Page xi - Moghul administration has been held up as a model for British imitation. In reality it was a monstrous system of oppression and extortion, which none but Asiatics could have practised or endured. Justice was a mockery. Magistrates could always be bribed ; false witnesses could always be bought.
Page 261 - It is lovely beyond description, but the loveliness is feminine. It is not the tomb of a wife, but the shrine of a mistress. It awakens ideas of fair complexioned beauty; the soul is dead, but the form, the charm, the grace of beauty are lingering there. The walls are like muslin dresses, radiant with flowers and jewels. The perforated marble gates are like the lace veils of a bride. Shah Jehan never lived at Delhi ; he made Agra his capital, but sometimes spent the hot months in the cool climate...
Page 233 - Jehan. put it down. Thirty thousand rebels were slain ; ten thousand heads were sent to Delhi ; ten thousand bodies were hung on trees with their heads downwards along the several highways. Notwithstanding repeated massacres there are frequent rebellions in Hindustan. There is not a province in the empire in which half a million of people have not been slaughtered during my own reign and that of my father. Ever and anon some accursed miscreant springs up to unfurl the standard of rebellion. In Hindustan...
Page 199 - ... general (that be in Agra, and are well) resort unto the court, the king coming forth in open audience, sitting in his seat royal, and every man standing in his degree before him ; his chiefest sort of nobles standing within a red rail, and the rest without.
Page 207 - Here he discourses on different things very affably. No business of state is done anywhere but at one of these two last places, where it is publicly canvassed, and so registered; which register might be seen for two shillings, and the common people know as much as the council; so that every day the king's resolutions...
Page 207 - Mogul sits daily to entertain strangers, receive petitions and presents, give out orders, and to see and be seen. And here it will be proper to give some account of his court.