The world: historical and actual . about. The empire was at itsheight in the last half of the seventeenth was thecapital. TheE u rope a ns,whether Portu-guese, Dutch,French or En-glish, avoidedconflict withthe great Mo-gul. The greatSepoyrebellionwas abetted byBahadur, theemperor atDelhi. Theempire had al-ready beengreatly weak-ened by schismand dissen-tions, and thatEnglish shot his sons and grandson, and trans-ported the emperor himself to Burmah where hedied. Thus with the close of the Sepoy rebellionthe Mogul Empire disappeared, and has since shownno symptoms of life. In 1880
The world: historical and actual . about. The empire was at itsheight in the last half of the seventeenth was thecapital. TheE u rope a ns,whether Portu-guese, Dutch,French or En-glish, avoidedconflict withthe great Mo-gul. The greatSepoyrebellionwas abetted byBahadur, theemperor atDelhi. Theempire had al-ready beengreatly weak-ened by schismand dissen-tions, and thatEnglish shot his sons and grandson, and trans-ported the emperor himself to Burmah where hedied. Thus with the close of the Sepoy rebellionthe Mogul Empire disappeared, and has since shownno symptoms of life. In 1880 the total railway mileage in India was12,005 There had been expended in the construc-tion and equipment of these railroads over $500,000,-000. The population of British India, classifiedaccording to religion, is Brahmans, 140,000,000;Mohammedans, 40,000,000; Buddhists, 3,000,000;Christians, 900,000; various forms of aboriginal be-lief, 6,000,000. In Southern India the missionarieshave met with some success. Buddhism is a reformed. Sepoy alliance was fatal. Th or later Brahminism, Buddha sustaining much thesame relation to Brahma as Jesus Christ does toJehovah in our religion. The total following ofBuddha at the present day in British India is con-fined to the Burmese possessions. India has several splendid cities, centers of tradeand \vealth,the most notable of these being the seldomvisited, because far inland, Benares. It is upon thebanks of the Ganges. The Brahmans regard it withsacred veneration. It is the chief seat of Indianeducation. It contains some splendid mosques andtemples. It has a population of about 250, glance at the Sanskrit language and literature, and we takeleave of the studyof languagesas a science,the Sanskrit isthe most help-ful. It ceasedto be spokenso many cen-turies ago thatits death isshrouded inimpenetrablemystery. Thesacred booksof the Brah-mins are pre-served fromvulgar knowl-edge by being entombed in a dead tongue. Thisreligious lite
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