The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period, Volumen8Trübner and Company, 1877 |
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Página 80 - How to relate the ruin and desolation that overwhelmed this beautiful country! Wazirabad, Imanabad, and Gujrat, towns which, for population might almost be called cities, were levelled with the earth Nothing was respected, no sort of violence remained unpractised ; property of all kinds became the spoil of the plunderer, and women the prey of the ravisher.'1 'On the 15th of the month,' continues Anandram, 'the Shah continued his march towards Shah-Jahanabad.
Página 267 - Dehli in the course of their return, they made straight for their destination, after leaving one of their warlike chieftains, named Janku, at the head of a formidable army in the vicinity of the metropolis. It chanced that in the year 1172 AH (1758-9 AD) Adina Beg Khan passed away; whereupon Jankuji entrusted the government of the province of Lahore to a Mahratta, called Sama, whom he despatched thither. He also appointed Sadik Beg Khan, one of Adina Beg Khan's followers, to the administration of...
Página 119 - The Dakhini force attacked and ransacked the whole country, not allowing a single man to escape, and every article of money or property they carried off as booty. Many of the old families were completely ruined.
Página 89 - The town was reduced to ashes, and had the appearance of a plain consumed with fire. All the regal jewels and property and the contents of the treasury were seized by the Persian conqueror in the citadel. He thus became possessed of treasure to the amount of...
Página 411 - ... the Akbarah i Hind of one Muhammad Riza, written in the time of " John Company," and who, discussing the constitution and Government of England, says : " The ruling power is possessed by two parties — one the King, who is lord of the State ; and the other the Honourable Company. The former governs his own country ; and the latter, though only subjects, exceed the King in power, and are directors of mercantile affairs.
Página 195 - Bengal up to 1781 AD, and a critical examination of their government and policy in Bengal. The author treats these important subjects with a freedom and spirit, and with a force, clearness and simplicity of style very unusual in an Asiatic writer, and which justly entitles him to pre-eminence among Muhammadan historians.
Página 88 - Jama were set fire to and reduced to ashes. The inhabitants, one and all, were slaughtered. Here and there some opposition was offered, but in most places people were butchered unresistingly. The Persians laid violent hands on everything and everybody ; cloth, jewels, dishes of gold and silver, were acceptable spoil. The author beheld these horrors from his mansion, situated in the...
Página 196 - Goddard, and of many other individuals to be found in these volumes, are no exception to this remark, since they are evidently the effusions of sincerity and gratitude ; and some of them, as that of Mr. Fullarton, were written long after the parties concerned had left the country. — Without having any knowledge of civil liberty in the abstract, this author possessed the fullest enjoyment of it ; and, from this circumstance, his testimony has become of so great importance. Customs 785 Customs mid...
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