History of India . Indian mind, and the reaction of the ancientphilosophies of the Brahman schools upon the imagina-tion of the West, may end in generating a new forcein the world, perchance an Indian nation combiningthe profound speculations of the East with the pro-gressive activities of Europe. Prophecy is no part ofthe historians duty; but if any forecast may be deducedfrom the long period of alien rule surveyed in thepreceding pages, it is not favourable to any hopes ofsuch a consummation. The conquerors of India havecome in hordes again and again, but they have scarcelytouched the soul o
History of India . Indian mind, and the reaction of the ancientphilosophies of the Brahman schools upon the imagina-tion of the West, may end in generating a new forcein the world, perchance an Indian nation combiningthe profound speculations of the East with the pro-gressive activities of Europe. Prophecy is no part ofthe historians duty; but if any forecast may be deducedfrom the long period of alien rule surveyed in thepreceding pages, it is not favourable to any hopes ofsuch a consummation. The conquerors of India havecome in hordes again and again, but they have scarcelytouched the soul of the people. The Indian is stiU,in the main, what he always was, in spite of themaU; and however forcible the new and unprecedentedinfluences now at work upon an instructed minority, 190 THE FALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIEE one can with difficulty imagine any serious change inthe rooted character and time-honoured instincts ofthe vast mass of the people, nor is it at all certain,that such change would be for the APPENDIXES APPENDIX I AKBAES CAPTUEE OF FOET ASIR FEOM THE AKBAE-NAMAH OF ILLAHBAD FAIZI OF SIRHIND (An Extract translated from the Persian by Dowson in Elliots History of India) The extract here presented is from an abridged account of certainimportant events in the reign of Akbar the Great compiled by Shaikhniahbad Faizi of Sirhind from the fuller and more important TahakaPiAkbarl of Nizam-ad-din and the well-known Akbar Namah of chronicler, after giving an account of the rebellions raised againstthe rule of Akbar by the Mirzas of Srn-at in 1572 (see p. 13), drawsa graphic picture of the great emperors campaigns in the Deccan, andespecially of the storming, in 1600, of the fortress of Asir, the most im-pregnable fortress in Khandesh, a district now comprised in the BombayPresidency (see p. 49). Editor. THE Emperor Akbar had subjected to his rule thewhole wide expanse of Hindustan, with the excep-tion of a portion of the Deccan, the rulers of which ha
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