Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s2.48

c18.s2.48

“Here, under a marble slab, lies the head of poor Dārā Shikūh, who, but for a little infirmity of temper had, perhaps, changed the destinies of India, by changing the character of education. While looking upon the slab under which his head reposes, I thought of the slight accidents by flood and field, the still slighter thought of the brain and feeling of the heart on which the destinies of nations and of empires often depend.” ²