[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912) › v1.c8.9 # History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c8.9 History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c8.9 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8.9) Besides the wild robbers of the southern mountains and the tame cultivators of the northern lowlands, there was a third element of the population,—"primitive nomads who occupied tracts of barren steppe land, and drove their flocks from hill to valley and valley to hill, in search of pasture according to season."\[‡\] - [Previous: v1.c8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8.8) - [Next: v1.c8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8.10) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c8.9) · Pramāṇa