New History of the Marathas v1.c19.s1.32

v1.c19.s1.32

“If all these dangers were averted and a new force communicated to the people, the credit of it must be ascribed to Aurangzeb’s ambition. The twenty years war was brought to a happy termination. Aurangzeb stirred the people of Maharashtra to their inmost depths and it was the hard discipline of this war which cemented the national and patriotic instincts of their leaders, and during the next three generations carried them as conquerors to the farthest part of India. Without