A History Of The Great Moghuls Or A History Of The Badshahate Of Delhi From 1398 Ad To 1793 With An Introduction Concerning The Mongols And Moghuls Of Central Asia

Author : Pringle Kennedy
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ISBN 13 : 9781330677896
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Great Moghuls written by Pringle Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Great Moghuls: Or a History of the Badshahate of Delhi, From 1398 A. D. To 1739, With an Introduction Concerning the Mongols and Moghuls of Central Asia I Have been at work for a very considerable time in getting together the material for this volume. At first I had hoped to I have done some original work in the way of translating Persian authorities, not yet translated, and to have incorporated the results in this book. But the engrossing calls of my profession have made the spare time at my disposal very small and the distance at which I live from any good Oriental Library, has I made such work practically impossible. I determined, therefore, at an early stage of my task to leave such an undertaking altogether on one side and to make this work one readable by the intelligent man of the street, the person who knows but little of Indian History but has an interest in India. I have not hesitated, as my readers will see, to give my own deductions from the History of India of the 16th Century, as far as these bear upon the great Indian problems of to-day, and in this, however lame and inconclusive my opinions may seem to many, I believe I have done no wrong. The use of history is to teach political wisdom, so said Machiavelli long ago, and the study of Indian History would be robbed of much of its profit if through the glass of the past we never read the present and the future. The fact of the volume having been written at various times and in scraps, will account for a certain amount of repetition which my readers will, I am afraid, find in spite of my attempts at excising the same. They will also, I hope, pardon the length of many of my quotations. These are taken out of books, most of which are not likely to come the way of the general reader and which tell my story better than I can myself. If I can succeed in rousing my readers interest in the period of Indian History of which I write, I shall feel myself amply-rewarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.