. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . ower, that, after causing several of his physi-cians to be trampled to death by his elephants, for their inability to cure him, he sankunder the ravages of his malady, and left an unquiet kingdom to Ali Shah, his son andemulator in works of taste and in acts of cruelty. ASSER MAHAL—BEJAPOOR. The accompanying engraving affords a correct view
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . ower, that, after causing several of his physi-cians to be trampled to death by his elephants, for their inability to cure him, he sankunder the ravages of his malady, and left an unquiet kingdom to Ali Shah, his son andemulator in works of taste and in acts of cruelty. ASSER MAHAL—BEJAPOOR. The accompanying engraving affords a correct view of one of the numerous palaces, nowin the last stage of ruin, which embellished the once flourishing capital of massive pile stands upon the margin of a broad moat which encircles the ruinedcitadel, in the central part of the city, where the progress of decay has been more rapidand extensive than in any other of the desolate quarters of this extraordinary city ofpremature ruins. The annals of Bejapoor contain some curious instances of the political influence andthe bold interference of females in affairs of state, tolerated in that kingdom; fornotwithstanding the jealous exclusion, by the Mohammedans, of females from any part of t- ^. .mk. m^?. THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 103 the government, and the little influence they were permitted to have in society, they,upon many occasions, coutrived to take an active part in the intrigues and revolutions ofcourts; and with one of those instances of womanly interference in the affairs of state,the Asser Mahal appears to have been connected. The occasion was as follows :—Uponthe death of the third monarch of Bejapoor, his son and rightful successor, Ismail AdilShah, was a boy of tender age, who had not yet left the zenana of the palace; and theaffairs of the kingdom were consequently administered for a time by a regent, KhumulKhan, who, by the desire of the dying king, was to govern for his son during theminority of th
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