"The Sultan requested the wise men to supply some rules and regulations for grinding down the Hindus, and for deprivin…"

"There was no middle state. A man must be of the highest rank or live miserably."

"Most towns in Hindustan are made up of earth, mud, and other wretched material; that there is no city or town (that) …"

"One has only to read Bhimsen’s graphic account of the miserable conditions in the Deccan as a result of Qurangzeb’s r…"

"I had been astonished, since I left Bicholim [eight miles north of Goa], to find the roads crowded with troops of peo…"

"An important order in the reign of Aurangzeb describes the Jagirdars as demanding in theory only half but in practice…"

"The conclusion that the decay noticed in the early 19th century and more so in subsequent decades originated with Eur…"

"India has always been considered a most wealthy and opulent country, more favoured by nature than any other in the wo…"

"…the peasants are more oppressed than formerly [and] frequently abscond."

"India survived only by virtue of its patience, its superhuman power and its immense size. The levies it had to pay we…"