[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 40.1.6 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 40.1.6 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 40.1.6 - **Language:** English ### [40.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1.6) He also subdued the whole of the Carnatic, both in length and breadth, even to the shore of the sea of Ooman. But in the convulsions which soon after shook the empire, all these conquests, with the exception of Guzerat, were wrested from him, and continued separate. The causes of the disturbances were chiefly these: the heavy taxes which in this reign were imposed on the inhabitants of the Doab and other provinces; the passing of copper money for silver, by public decree; the raising of 370,000 horse for the conquest of Khorassan and Mawur-ool-Nehr; the sending of 100,000 horse towards the mountains between India and China; the cruel massacre of many Mahomedans as well as Hindoos, in different parts of India; and many other lesser reasons, which, for the sake of brevity, we forbear to mention. The duties levied on the necessaries of life, realised with the utmost rigour, were too great for the power of industry to cope with: the country, in consequence, became involved in poverty and distress. The farmers fled to the woods, and maintained themselves by rapine; the lands were left uncultivated; famine desolated whole provinces, and the sufferings of the people obliterated from their minds every idea of subjection. - [Previous: 40.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1.5) - [Next: 40.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1.7) - [Up: 40.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.40.1.6) · Pramāṇa