Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s3.27

c18.s3.27

"Was it not incumbent upon my preceptor," he said, "to make me acquainted with the distinguishing features of every nation of the earth ; its resources and strength, its mode of warfare, its manners, religions, form of government, and wherein its interests principally consist, and by a regular course of historical reading, to render me familiar with the origin of states, their progress and decline, the events, accidents or errors, owing to which such great changes and mighty revolutions have been effected ?"²