History of India from the Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century: For the Use of Students and Colleges, Volumen1J. Grant, 1906 - 359 páginas |
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Página 220 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 221 - ... possessions and revenues, amidst unexampled dangers, have been secured and preserved, — then a question may be unaccountably mixed with your consideration much beyond the consequence of the present prosecution, involving perhaps the merit of the impeachment itself which gave it birth, — a question which the Commons, as prosecutors of Mr Hastings, should, in common prudence, have avoided...
Página 366 - They are the most deceitful, mischievous race of people that I have ever seen or read of. I have not yet met with a Hindu who had one good quality ; and honest Mussulmans do not exist.
Página 366 - Government, were broken ; every individual, as if in a forest of wild beasts, could rely upon nothing but the strength of his own arm." To a similar purpose is the testimony of another witness cited by Colonel Tod, the historian of Rajputana : — " The people of Hindustan at this period thought only of present safety and gratification. Misery was disregarded by those who escaped it, and man, centred only in himself, felt not for his kind. This selfishness, destructive of public and of private virtue,...
Página 366 - So reduced was the actual number of human beings, and so utterly cowed their spirit, that the few villages that did continue to exist at great intervals, had scarcely any communication with one another ; and so great was the increase of beasts of prey, and so great the terror they inspired, that the little communication that remained was often actually cut off by a single tiger known to haunt the road.
Página 221 - But if it be true that he was directed to make the safety and prosperity of Bengal the first object of his attention, and that, under his administration, it has been safe and prosperous, — if it be true...
Página 101 - Road," which the modern rulers of India have laid down on the line of his own highway. It is the misfortune of absolute monarchy that the best rulers can never ensure a worthy successor. Sher Shah's sovereignty was assumed by his son Salim, or Islam, Shah, a young man apparently not ill-prepared for the post, but labouring under the usual trials of a prince born for power which he has done nothing to acquire. The old contentiousness of the Pathdn nobility sprang up when the strong restraining hand...
Página 100 - His brief career was devoted to the establishment of the unity which he had long ago perceived to be the great need of his country. Though a devout Muslim, he never oppressed his Hindu subjects. His progresses were the cause of good to his people instead of being — as is too often the case in India — the occasions of devastation.... It is a welcome task to take note of such things as a break in the long annals of rapine and slaughter, and we can do so without hesitation ; for the acts of Sher...
Página 100 - January, 1542, being about sixty years of age; and the rest of his brief career was devoted to the establishment of the unity which he had long ago perceived to be the great need of his country. Though a devout Muslim he never oppressed his Hindu subjects. His progresses were the cause of good to the people instead of being — as is too often the case in India — the occasions of devastation. He laboured ceaselessly for the protection of the public : " it behoves great men," he said, "to be always...
Página 42 - The realm," says a chronicler, " was filled with friends and cleared of foes ; his bounty was continuous, and so was his slaughter.