Aurangzib and the Decay of the Mughal Empire - Softcover

Lane-Poole, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1731477317 ISBN 13: 9781731477316

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

Aurangzķb and the Decay of the Mughal Empire by Stanley Lane-PooleThe greatest of Indian rulers, the Emperor Akbar, died in 1605. Third in the successionof his dynasty, he was first in his genius for government the true founder of the IndianEmpire of the Great Moguls. He left a magnificent heritage to his descendants. Hisrealm embraced all the provinces of Hindustan, and included Kabul on the west, Bengalon the east, Kashmir beside the Himalayas, and Khandesh in the Deccan. He had notmerely conquered this vast dominion in forty years of warfare, but he had gone fartowards welding it into an organic whole. He united under one firm governmentHindus and Muhammadans, Shi’a and Sunnis, Rajputs and Afghans, and all thenumerous races and tribes of Hindustan, in spite of the centrifugal tendencies of castesand creeds. In dealing with the formidable difficulties presented by the government of apeculiarly heterogeneous empire, he stands absolutely supreme among orientalsovereigns, and may even challenge comparison with the greatest of European kings.He was himself the spring and fount of the sagacious policy of his government, and theproof of the soundness of his system is the duration of his undiminished empire, inspite of the follies and vices of his successors, until it was undone by the puritanreaction of his great-grandson Aurangzib.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1731477317
• ISBN 13: 9781731477316
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 106