Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.10
Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.10
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v1.c8.s3.10
An eye-witness, the Bengali poet Gangārām, thus describes the sufferings of the people: "The *Bargis* began to loot the villages. Every class of men took to flight with their property, . . . when suddenly the *Bargis* came up and encircled them in the plain. They snatched away gold and silver, rejecting everything else. Of some people they cut off the hand, of some the nose and ears;