Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s2.16

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c18.s2.16

“At about 8.30 p.m. he retired to harem. Two and sometimes three hours were here spent in listening to songs by women. Then His Majesty retired to bed and was read to sleep. Good readers sat behind a *pardah* which separated them from the royal bedchamber, and read aloud books on travel, lives of saints and prophets and histories of former kings—all rich in instruction. Among them, the *Life of Tīmūr* and the *Autobiography of Bābar*³ were his special favourites.”⁴

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