Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c2.4

v1.c2.4

The materials are vast and varied; but this fact does not constitute the difficulty of the historian of the period so much as the immense number of the separate political bodies and centres of action created in the country by the dismemberment of an empire that had once embraced nearly the whole of India. A history of India in the 18th century which would attempt to deal with every one of these provinces or States in all its actions will be like a bag of loose stones constantly knocking against one another and not a single solid edifice.