... Mahabharat, of the architects of the Taj Mahal or Beejapore, of Toder Mull and Nana Furvana, of Baber and Hyder Ali Yet to read nine-tenths of what has been written on Indian life and administration of ... It safe to is say, for example, that any period was the condition of India more anarchical than that of France, Germany, the Low Countries, and Italy during a great portion of the Middle Ages ... indifference to the of economical causes are, as a rule, over- The terrible Afghan War, with its long legacy of debt and disaffection, the conquest of the 26 INTRODUCTION Punjab and the annexation of Scinde...