Mughal Administration c10.s6.3

c10.s6.3

As for offences against the State, such as rebellion, peculation and default in the payment of revenue, the sovereign inflicted punishment at his pleasure, because the Quranic law gives no guidance here. Among the prevalent modes of putting an offender to death were having him trodden to death by infuriated elephants, burying him alive, causing him to be stung to death by cobras, or pressing him to death [the last being also sanctioned by mediæval English law.] Tortures of various degrees of ingenuity were resorted to.