The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

Vigour of Mirza Najaf — Zabita rebels — Emperor takes the Field, and the Rebellion is suppressed — Sumroo's Jaigir — Abdul Ahid takes the Field — Unsuccessful Campaign against t...

Effects of climate — Early immigrants — French and English — Mohammedan power not overthrown by British — Perron's administration — Changes since then — The Talukdars - Lake's f...

Gholam Kadir — Pillars of the State — Siege of Raghogarh — British policy — Measures of Sindhia — Rajput Confederacy — Battle of Lalsaut — Muhammad Beg's death — Defection of Is...

Agency of Restoration — Madhoji Sindhia - Zabita attacked — Mirza Najaf Khan — Flight of Zabita — Treaty with Rohillas — Zabita regains office — Mahrattas attack Dehli — Despera...

Sindhia as Mayor of Palace — British Policy — Augmentation of Army under General de Boigne — Ismail Beg joins the Rajput rising — Battle of Patan — Sindhia at Mathra — Siege of...

Feuds of the Mahrattas — Perron attacks Thomas — End of Thomas — Treaty of Bassein — Lord Wellesley — Treaty of Lucknow — Wellesley supported — Fear of the French — Sindhia thre...

Defection of Moghuls - Confederates obtain possession of Palace — Emperor deposed — Palace plundered — Gholam Kadir in the Palace — Emperor blinded — Approach of Mahrattas — App...

Daulat Rao Sindhia — Thomas adopted by Appa Khandi Rao — Revolution at Sardhana — Begam Sumroo attacked but delivered — Begam Sumroo becomes a wiser Woman — Movements of Afghans...

THE Mahratta confederacy was in 1759 irresistible from the borders of Berar to the banks of the Ganges. On one side they were checked by the Nizam and Haidar, on the other by Sh...

The English — Shujaa-ud-daulah — Shahzada enters Bihar; his character — Ramnarayan defeated — M. Law — Battle of Gaya — March towards Hindustan — Massacre of Patna — Flight of K...

THE country to which the term Hindustan is strictly and properly applied may be roughly described as a rhomboid, bounded on the north-west by the rivers Indus and Satlej, on the...

Najib-ud-daulah and Jawan Bakht — The Jats — Bhartpur State — Suraj Mal — Najib attacks Jats — Negotiations — Death of Suraj Mal — Jats attack Jaipur — Return of the Mahrattas —...

SELDOM has a reign begun under fairer auspices than did that of Ahmad Shah. The Emperor was in the flower of his age; his immediate associates were men distinguished for their c...

No sooner was the revolution accomplished than the young kingmaker took effective measures to secure his position. He first seized and imprisoned his relation the Khan Khanan, w...

For nearly two centuries the throne of the Chaghtais continued to be filled by a succession of exceptionally able Princes. The brave and simple-hearted Babar, the wandering Huma...

GUIDED by his mother, a person of sense and spirit, the young Emperor began his reign by forming a party of Moghul friends, who were hostile to the Saiyids on every conceivable...