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Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan, Or, The Mogul Empire
Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan Or The Mogul Empire Author:James Rennell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Geographical Division of Hindoostan, into Provinces or States. 1 He following account is divided into two parts: the first of which, contains the provincia... more »l division of the empire under the Moguls, so far as the particulars have come to my knowledge; the other contains the present division of it, into independent states, of very unequal extent and power. It will not be expected that the revenues or military force of those states, should be, in general, well ascertained; or that the exact relation in which many of the inferior provinces stand, to the more powerful ones in their neighbourhood, should be correctly known: since the knowledge requisite for such a detail, can only be collected from persons who have had opportunities either of making the proper inquiries on the spot, or of consulting such documents as have received the sanction of authority. In some instances, it has been found im- pofsible to resort to authorities of this kind: as there are large tracts within this widely extended country, which no European of character (as far as I have heard) has visited, of late years. To this may be added, that the changes are so frequent, that the progrefs of inquiry and information would scarcely keep pace with them, throughout the whole region. Acbar's Division of Hindoostan. I Shall not attempt to trace the various fluctuations of boundary that took place in this empire, since the aera of the Mahomc- dan conquests, according as the seat of government was removed from Ghizni to Lahore, to Delhi, or to Agra, as suited the politics of the times. It is sufficient for my purpose that I have already imprefsed on the mind of the reader, an idea that the provinces of Hindoostan proper have seldom continued under one head, during a period of twenty succefsive years, from t...« less