. 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 . ahrattas; and these, with the neighbouringfortress of Asseerghur (styled the key of the Deccan), were among the first trophies of thecampaigns which, under Lake, Wellesley, and others, ultimately subdued the formidablepower which had risen upon the ruin of the Mohammedan states, and threatened toinvolve the whole of India in a cruel and deva
. 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 . ahrattas; and these, with the neighbouringfortress of Asseerghur (styled the key of the Deccan), were among the first trophies of thecampaigns which, under Lake, Wellesley, and others, ultimately subdued the formidablepower which had risen upon the ruin of the Mohammedan states, and threatened toinvolve the whole of India in a cruel and devastating war. THE JUMMA MUSJID AND WATER PALACE—MANDOO. Mandoo is a ruined city of Central India, situated about forty-seven miles south-westfrom Oojein, and was once the magnificent capital of a district of the same name,between 22° and 23° N. lat. It is now a mass of ruins, almost veiled from sight byjungle, and daily crumbling into fragments. Ancient writers have recorded that itwas founded by the Patau sovereign of Mahva—Mohammed Kliiljee; and that, within itscircuit of thirty-seven miles, abounding with treasures of art, it far surpassed in splendourall the other great cities of Central Hindoostan. Occupying the crest of the Viudhya g ^ ^. THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 85 mountains, enclosed in every direction by a natural ravine, and a strong interior wallnearly inaccessible, it appears in its prosperity rather to have been a fortified district thana mere city ; but after its reduction by the emperor Akber, in 1575, it fell rapidly intodecay; and when, some forty years afterwards (1615), it was visited by Sir Thomas Roe,ambassador from James I. to the emperor Jehangeer, the city was much dilapidated, and Ichabod appeared already written upon the portals of its temples. The wide chasm that separates the platform of the mountain on which the city isbuilt, from the neighbouring hills, although a natural formation, has the appearance ofan artificial ditch of enormous di
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