 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1866 - 866 pages
...letters are filled with poetical quotations, and sometimes with extemporary verses made by himself. His prohibition of history was more permanent : he...his transactions, that from the eleventh year of his reign,22 the course of events can only be traced through the means of letters on business and of notes... | |
 | Aurangzeb (Emperor of Hindustan) - 1908 - 202 pages
...Indianised and many Indian words occur in the epistles. The style is generally admirable" His (Aurungzebe's) prohibition of history was more permanent; he not...can only be traced through the means of letters on busiriess and of notes taken clandestinely by private individuals*" ( ie Khfifi Khan and others). 1.... | |
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... for the same reason. The Mughal Emperor professed as the cause of his prohibition that the cultivation of inward piety was preferable to the ostentatious display of his achievements. Elphinstone observes of this strange prohibition that the Emperor... 