History of India . CAP HAEEBS Am) TUBBAN^ PITTEBS. much of his success to his open disregard of the Mo-hammedan religion. The empire had been governedby men of the world, and their government had beengood. There was nothing but his own conscience toprevent Aurangzib from adopting the eclectic philoso-phy of Akbar, the luxurious profligacy of Jahangir, 124 AUEANGZIB THE PUEITAN EMPEKOE. or the splendid ease of Shah Jahan. The Hindus wouldhave preferred anything to a Mohanunedan bigot. TheRajput princes only wanted to be let alone. The Dec-can would never have troubled Hindustan if Hindustanhad
History of India . CAP HAEEBS Am) TUBBAN^ PITTEBS. much of his success to his open disregard of the Mo-hammedan religion. The empire had been governedby men of the world, and their government had beengood. There was nothing but his own conscience toprevent Aurangzib from adopting the eclectic philoso-phy of Akbar, the luxurious profligacy of Jahangir, 124 AUEANGZIB THE PUEITAN EMPEKOE. or the splendid ease of Shah Jahan. The Hindus wouldhave preferred anything to a Mohanunedan bigot. TheRajput princes only wanted to be let alone. The Dec-can would never have troubled Hindustan if Hindustanhad not invaded it. Probably any other Moghul princewould have followed in the steps of the kings his fore-. HINSn MUSICIAKS. fathers, and emulated the indolence and vice of theluxurious court in which he had received his earliestimpressions. Aurangzib did none of these things. For the firsttime in their history the Moghuls beheld a rigid Mos-lem in their emperor—a Moslem as sternly repressiveof himself as of the people around him, a king who was KIGID DEVOTION TO ISLAM 126 prepared to stake Ms throne for the sake of the must have known that eompromise and conciliationformed the easiest and safest policy in an empire com-posed of heterogeneous elements of race and was no youthful enthusiast when he ascended thethrone at Delhi, but a man of forty, deeply experiencedin the policies and prejudices of the various sectionsof his subjects. He must have been fully consciousof the dangerous path he was pursuing, and well awarethat to nm a-tilt against every Hindu sentiment, toahenate his Persian adherents, the flower of his generalstaff, by dehberate opposition to their cheris
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