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Letters on India

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. ... cal prince. Thus the general tendency of such governments is to decay; and it is only when anarchy has risen to its height, and some vigorous genius who can be both a conqueror and a legislator, enforces a temporary calm, that man is allowed a little breathing time to recover strength for new exertions, and but too certainly for new sufferings. Such, in few words, has been the Mahommedan history of India. Of the institutions which made its native monarchies more respectable and more stable, we know too little; and of its present state, just recovering from the horrors of long and cruel wars, it is not fair to judge. LETTER XII. There is no prince whose life can be better authenticated than that of Zeher o'dien Mahommed Baber Shah, for he has written his own memoirs in a style accounted elegant by those most conversant in eastern literature, and in a manner that shews him to have been a consummate general and an able politician at least towards the latter part of his life. He was the sixth in descent from the great Tamerlane, and was born A. H. 888*. At the early age of 1 * A. D. 1472. twelve years his father Selk Omar, king of Firghana and Indija, part of the inheritance of Timur, entrusted to him the government of Indija, depending entirely on his extraordinary abilities, and Omar being accidentally killed about the same time Baber, succeeded to the whole kingdom. His uncles, jealous of his abilities, and thinking that the dominions of a child would be easily seized, marched against him but were repulsed, as were various other princes who made the same attempts. When Baber had reached the age of fifteen, having saved his own dominions he thought of invading those of others, and accordingly marched against the king of Samarkand, and the...

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: September 12, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781230266183

Letters on India

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. ... cal prince. Thus the general tendency of such governments is to decay; and it is only when anarchy has risen to its height, and some vigorous genius who can be both a conqueror and a legislator, enforces a temporary calm, that man is allowed a little breathing time to recover strength for new exertions, and but too certainly for new sufferings. Such, in few words, has been the Mahommedan history of India. Of the institutions which made its native monarchies more respectable and more stable, we know too little; and of its present state, just recovering from the horrors of long and cruel wars, it is not fair to judge. LETTER XII. There is no prince whose life can be better authenticated than that of Zeher o'dien Mahommed Baber Shah, for he has written his own memoirs in a style accounted elegant by those most conversant in eastern literature, and in a manner that shews him to have been a consummate general and an able politician at least towards the latter part of his life. He was the sixth in descent from the great Tamerlane, and was born A. H. 888*. At the early age of 1 * A. D. 1472. twelve years his father Selk Omar, king of Firghana and Indija, part of the inheritance of Timur, entrusted to him the government of Indija, depending entirely on his extraordinary abilities, and Omar being accidentally killed about the same time Baber, succeeded to the whole kingdom. His uncles, jealous of his abilities, and thinking that the dominions of a child would be easily seized, marched against him but were repulsed, as were various other princes who made the same attempts. When Baber had reached the age of fifteen, having saved his own dominions he thought of invading those of others, and accordingly marched against the king of Samarkand, and the...

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: September 12, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781230266183

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