Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s4.7

c10.s4.7

Again there have been several arts and sciences extant in Hindu India which have become extinct in the Muhammadan and Mughal periods of Indian History. On this account could we deny the existence of these arts and sciences once in a flourishing state? If the Mughal monarchs indulged in savage punishments, and justice was capricious, it was because they came from a land where the state of culture and civilization demanded it, and they did not make enough allowance for the altered circumstances. They were invaders and hence foreign to the Hindu ideals and practice of government and law. In other words the tradition behind them was not Hindu in character or spirit, but rather antagonistic to it.