. 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 . ny of which are so choked with jungle as to be impassable. Bejapoor is now a city of tombs and ruins; and travellers wandering through its noiseless solitudes, have remarked the melancholy contrast afibrded by the admirable state of repair which distinguishes those edifices reared in honour of the dead, with the utter decay and desolation of
. 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 . ny of which are so choked with jungle as to be impassable. Bejapoor is now a city of tombs and ruins; and travellers wandering through its noiseless solitudes, have remarked the melancholy contrast afibrded by the admirable state of repair which distinguishes those edifices reared in honour of the dead, with the utter decay and desolation of the houses formerly inhabited by the living residents of the city. The magnificent remains of the ancient capital of the province of Bejapoor are to befound in lat. 17° 9 N., long. 75° 42 E., and about 245 miles from Bombay. Theorigin of the city—which, on its foundation, was designated Vijaya-pura, the Impreg-nable—is, like tiiat of most of the cities of India, somewhat obscure; but its allegedfounder (who was also the founder of the Adil Shahee dynasty, which arose fromobscurity in 1489) was Yusuf Adil Shah, who reigned from that date until 1510. Thispersonage is said to have been a sou of the Ottoman emperor Amurah, at whose death m^. THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 93 he escaped destructiou by the contrivance of his mother, who had him conveyed to Persia,from whence, at the age of sixteen, he was compelled to fly, through suspicions whichhad been awakened with regard to his birth. In his effort to escape the pursuit of hisenemies the prince was captured, and afterwards sold at the Bahmani court (a kingdomof the Deccan) as a Georgian slave. From this ignoble position he rose, according tothe practice of Mamaluke adventurers, until, by favour of his patron, he became thegovernor of Bejapoor; and then, taking advantage of the death of his sovereign, by anact of flagrant disloyalty, for which the age and country afforded him abundance of pre-cedent, he seized the fir
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