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... troops or nobles to matter a hill of beans . The real threat was Aurangzeb - master strategist of the Deccan , who had more military cunning than anyone in the Mogul Em- pire . Murad Bakhsh had been presiding over Gujarat for some five ...
... troops or nobles to matter a hill of beans . The real threat was Aurangzeb - master strategist of the Deccan , who had more military cunning than anyone in the Mogul Em- pire . Murad Bakhsh had been presiding over Gujarat for some five ...
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... troops . Cor- onation was publicly celebrated two weeks later , with district mosques proclaiming Murad under his modest new title of Maruwwajuddin ; and an envoy was even sent off to Persia with gifts from the new “ emperor . ” By late ...
... troops . Cor- onation was publicly celebrated two weeks later , with district mosques proclaiming Murad under his modest new title of Maruwwajuddin ; and an envoy was even sent off to Persia with gifts from the new “ emperor . ” By late ...
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... troops obviously intended to prevent any conjoining of the two troublemakers : Jaswant could move south to deter Au ... troop movements filtered through . And though Murad had proved typically less prudent , so that the Rajput chief at ...
... troops obviously intended to prevent any conjoining of the two troublemakers : Jaswant could move south to deter Au ... troop movements filtered through . And though Murad had proved typically less prudent , so that the Rajput chief at ...
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The Taj Mahal | 1 |
A Note on Dates and Names | 9 |
Day of Vengeance | 22 |
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