Rulers of India: Akbar

Rulers of India: Akbar

I crave the indulgence of the reader whilst I explain as briefly as possible the plan upon which I have written this short life of the great sovereign who firmly established the Mughal dynasty in India.1 The original conception of such an empire was not Akbar's own. His grandfather, Bbar, had conquered a great portion of India, but during the five years which elapsed between the conquest and his death, Bbar enjoyed but few opportunities of donning the robe of the administrator. By the rivals whom he had overthrown and by the children of the soil, Bbar was alike regarded as a conqueror, and as nothing more. A man of remarkable ability, who had spent all his life in arms, he was really an adventurer, though a brilliant adventurer, who, soaring above his contemporaries in genius, taught in the rough school of adversity, had beheld from his eyrie at Kbul the distracted condition of fertile Hindustn, and had dashed down upon her plains with a force that was irresistible. Such was Bbar, a man greatly in advance of his age, generous, affectionate, lofty in his views, yet, in his connection with Hindustn, but little more than a conqueror. He had no time to think of any other system of administration than the system with which he had been familiar all his life, and which had been the system introduced by his Afghn predecessors into India, the system of governing by means of large camps, each commanded by a general devoted to himself, and each occupying a central position in a province. It is a question whether the central idea of Bbar's policy was not the creation of an empire in Central Asia rather than of an empire in India. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31572
Author: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce)
Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English