Local Government in Ancient India c6.s1.16

c6.s1.16

Under the Mogul Monarchy, as a literary historian of India so aptly remarks, 'Brahmanism remained with its undying vitality of intellectual life to continue its own course unmoved. The glorious reign of Akbar had seen an outbreak of native genius that, in its own lines, rivals that seen in England in Elizabethan times’,¹ for, besides the many minor men of letters, there appeared in the Indian literary firmament the two shining stars, Sūrdās and Tulsīdās, whose masterpieces, according to Sir G. Grierson, are not far behind the work of Spenser and Shakespeare.