This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...when the Persians were aided by a Russian army, as would surely be the case. The writer added that he and the Queen of Oude--who had just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to appeal against the annexation--were engaged in raising the country, and that (please God) the next news would be of the expulsion of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...when the Persians were aided by a Russian army, as would surely be the case. The writer added that he and the Queen of Oude--who had just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to appeal against the annexation--were engaged in raising the country, and that (please God) the next news would be of the expulsion of the infidels. When one adds, that at the beginning of the year a proclamation in a similar spirit had been torn down from the door of the Jama Musjid--cathedral mosque--of Delhi, it is impossible to doubt the existence of a widespread conspiracy in the interests of the Moslem revival so persistently dreamed of by the Mohammedans of Hindustan. If it be asked why a Hindu chief like the Nana should have taken an active part in such an intrigue, the simple answer is that the Nana claimed to be Peshwa of the Marfitha Confederacy; and that, immediately before the introduction of British supremacy, the Maratha Peshwa had been the titular Vicegerent of the Moghul Empire, a post which the Nana would have been glad to fill. It may be less easy to trace the nexus which must have existed amongst all the different authors of the plot. A gallant historian who was in Oude at the time, calls the Maulvi Ahmad "a loyal subject of the King of Delhi and the Nawab of Oude."1 Strictly speaking, that could hardly be the status of anyone at the time, because the Nawab of Oude, by assuming the title of King, had declared himself independent of the Court of Delhi, so that the subject of the one could not very well be the subject of the other. But presumably the Maulvi was an ardent well-wisher to the cause of Islam in general; and his after conduct showed both talents and tenacity, until he was sniped from the top of a wall as he was trying to break down the gate of ...
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