A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.110
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.110
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v1.c17.110
The sack both of Burhanpoor and Baroach are principally to be ascribed to Aurungzebe’s want of military arrangement. Intent on his own schemes against the Mahomedan states, he neither covered his own country, nor took time to study the genius of the people, whom his early ambition and his present negligence alike fostered, and for whom he still entertained a contempt fatal to the security of his empire.