History of India . The Grand Plaza at Jaipur Jaipur, or Jeypore, a city of nearly one hundred and fifty thousandinhabitants, is the modem capital of the native Rajput State of Rajputana,and its location is close to the older capital. Amber, which is now in Grand Plaza of Jaipur, with the Maharajas palace, stables, and theHall of the Winds, a building rising story upon story, set off by a back-ground of rugged hills crowned by the Tiger Fort, leaves a vivid picture?upon the memory of any one who has seen AFFAIKS m THE DECCAJ^ 151 struggle in wMcli he was now to engage in the Dece
History of India . The Grand Plaza at Jaipur Jaipur, or Jeypore, a city of nearly one hundred and fifty thousandinhabitants, is the modem capital of the native Rajput State of Rajputana,and its location is close to the older capital. Amber, which is now in Grand Plaza of Jaipur, with the Maharajas palace, stables, and theHall of the Winds, a building rising story upon story, set off by a back-ground of rugged hills crowned by the Tiger Fort, leaves a vivid picture?upon the memory of any one who has seen AFFAIKS m THE DECCAJ^ 151 struggle in wMcli he was now to engage in the it was, he alienated them for ever. So long as thegreat Puritan sat on the throne of Akbar, not a Raj-put would stir a finger to save him. Aurangzib hadto fight his southern foes with the loss of his rightarm. Delhi is distant, says an old Deecan proverb, andmany an Indian king has realized its force when grap-pling with the ineradicable contumacy of his southernprovince. The Decean was never intended by natureto have any connection with Hindustan. The Vindhyaand Satpura Mountains and the Narbada River form atriple line of natural barricades, which divide the hightable-land of Central India from the plains of theGanges and its tributaries, and should have warnedthe sovereigns of DeM that it was wiser to keep totheir own coimtry. But the Decean lands were fertile;their wealth in diamonds and gold was fabulous; andevery great ruler of the northern plains has turnedhis eyes to the mountain barriers and long
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