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Sketches of Rulers of India
1908
Summary
The first comprises the States possessing the largest measure of independence and the most important of these are the Muhammadan and the Mahratta States which survived the struggles of the eighteenth and the beginning of the ninteenth centucies. [...] From the time that he entered the serviceINTRODUCTION 9 of the Government of India the whole of his service has been spent in connexion with Native States and there is scaikery one of the more important States of India including Rajputana and Central India and Kashmir in which he did not leave his mark for good on the adminitratIon of the State in the esteem of the rulers and in the affec [...] He once had the privilege of a winter's tour with the Zamindar ift one of the greater Zamindaris of Bengal the rulers of which in the estimation of their subjects ralrk with the chiefs of the larger States : and nothing struck hiVmore than the manner in which the slightest wish of the Zamindar was treated as law. [...] Sir Salar Jung was a man of remarkable ability who for many years lead held the post of minister under the last Nizam and being himself one of the nobles of the State was thoroughly acquainted with the wants of the country and with the defects of the adminiVration. [...] With the sympathetic suppprt of the Government of India he applied himself to the task before hint and succeeded during the Nizam's minority of fifteen years in accomplishing most if not all of the required measures of reform.' Of the present ruler of Haidarabad Sir David Barr has said : ' The Nizam is by far the shrewdest26 INTRODUCTION man in the State thoroughly alive to the responsibiliti
| Title | Pages | Author/Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontmatter | 1-38 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter I. The Buddhist Emperor of India Asoka 272 B.C.—232 B.C. | 39-62 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter II. The Founder of the Mogul Dynasty Babar 1482-1530 | 63-86 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter III. Akbar and the Rise of the Mogul Empire 1542-1605 | 87-111 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter IV. The Decay of the Mogul Empire Auranuzib 1618-1707 | 112-133 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter V. The Hindu Reconquest of In-Dia Madhava Rao Scindia 1730-1794 | 134-160 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter VI. The Struggle with the Muhammadan Powers of the South Haidar Ali 1717-1782 and Tipu Sultan 1753-1799 | 161-188 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter VII. The Sikh Barrier Between our Growing Empire and Central Asia Ranjit Singh 1780-1839 | 189-210 | G.D. Oswell | |
| Chapter VIII. The Early Portuguese Settlements in India Albuquerque 1453-1515 | 211-232 | G.D. Oswell |
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