Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c59.s3.18

v4.c59.s3.18

With the disappearance of true education, the literature now produced ceased to promote higher thinking, it merely pandered to rich men’s pride and vice. This sad fall from the age of Akbar and Tulsidas is noticeable alike in the Persian compositions of Ja‘far Zatali, the Urdu literature of the Court of Oudh, the Bengali works of Bhārat Chandra Ray and much of the latest Vaishnav poetry of Bengal. The Sanskrit and Persian languages had long ceased to bring forth any worthy fruit on the Indian soil. The new race of Hindi poets, like the flatterers of the Muslim rulers, devoted their talents to the ignoble task of flattering their worthless patrons' vanity or stimulating their baser appetites.