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that the English emperor of In
dia went there to be crowned in the
heart of his vast Asiatic dominions,
and there to receive the acclamations
and homage of over 300,000.000 OF
his subjects.
The first recognition of the Indian
empire in England was in 1877 when
Dlsraei, then prime minister of Eng
land, persuaded Queen Victoria as
matter of policy and to conciliate the
natives, to allow herself to be pro-
claimed empress at Delhi, the ancient
seat of the famous Great Moguls. AS
means of reconciling the people to
British rule the stately ceremonial was
an immense success, and the later
proclamation of. King Edward by Lord
Curzon still further solicited the 10y
atty of that land of splendor, sQualor
and mystery
A Battlefield Of Races.
A great mass of entirely Legendary
history of the aboriginal inhabitants
exists in mythical and religious mar
rative, but the first authenticated rec
ords go no further back than the third
century before Christ This beautiful
and mysterious land has been a con-
tinual battle ground for contending in
vaders. attracted by it's fertile plains
and enormous wealth. Hindu and Mo-
bamn edan. Mongol and Tartar.
Frenchman and Englishman. have
waged fierce wars for it's possession,
erecting dynasties and empires amid
the ruin and desolation of a devastated
country.
Prior to the first Mohammedan In
vasion at the beginning of the eleventh
century, India was the seat of numer-
Gus Buddhist kingdoms no one OF
which would seem to have attained
any definite overlordship. The found
ers belonged to invading branches OF
the Aryan race and were the ancestors
of the Modern Hindu. The Sultan
Mahmund was the first conqueror who
permanently established the Moham-
medan power in India, about the year
1000. During the next 700 years fire.
quent invasions by the followers OF
Mohammedan frightened the strong
y
About this time. series of fierce
inroads by the Monaghan and Tartar
hordes from the north threatened the
Mussulman domination and involved
the country in fresh miseries. North
eastern India was devastated, with
appalling barbarity, by the terrible
Ghenhis Khan, who is said to have
in, he nf hic
culinary career, no fewer than 100000
of human beings. Succeeding invasions
were beaten off with great difficulty,
but eventually at the close of the four
tenth century Tamerlane, the second
great Oriental conqueror of the mid
die ages, totally routed all the arm
les opposed to him, sacked Delhi, and
proclaimed himself emperor Before
the final battle this monster of inhum-
anity barharously butchered 100000
prisoners, who were hampering his
movements.
The Mohammedans, however, retain
ed the empire until 1926 when Barber
scholar, dipIomatist and warlike de-
scendant of Tamerlane--again invad.
ed the unhappy country, defeated the
Sultan Ibrahim on the plains of Delhi
and became the first of the Great Mo
guls. His grandson. the celebral ed
Akbar, was the greatest Asiatic mon
arch of modern times He brought
the whole of India under the Mogul
sway, ruled with wisdom, vigor and
humanity, encouraged literature and
1lS
medan. treated other religions with
wonderful tolerance. Akbar's grand
son, the Emperor Shah Jehan, is main.
ly remembered for the building of the
extraordinary and beautiful mauso-
leum at the Tai Mahal. Twenty thou.
sand men were employed on it inces-
sanity for % years. and it is proba bly,
the most beautiful building in the
world. 1t was designed for the EN-.
peror and his favorite wife
His son. the famous Aurungrzebe,
usurped the imperial power in 1857
and ruled with energy and effect for
half century. He cleared his way 70
the throne by the murder of his three
brothers and is also believed to have
poisoned his father He was the most
powerful of the Great Moguls. but the
fraud and treachery by which he es
tablished his empire engendered hat
red and dstrust among his subjects
| At his death the gigantic en-
! rire rapidly fell to pieces. The
British and French were now
ready to take an active part in the
| general scramble.
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