| Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah - India - 1829 - 604 pages
...punished for the crimes of the guilty, more especially helpless women and children : if Krishn Ray had been in fault, the poor and feeble inhabitants...whose prayers, as well as to the charities sent to Mecca with his mother, he ascribed his successes over the' Hindoos. . . ' Mahomed Shah had not been... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1849 - 666 pages
...him the government of the Deccan, it was probable that his successors and the princes of the Carnalic might long remain neighbours, which made it advisable...whose prayers as well as to the charities sent to Mecca with his mother, he ascribed his successes over the Hindoos. ****** Mahomed Shah was buried by... | |
| James Dunning Baker Gribble - Deccan (India) - 1896 - 452 pages
...single enemy after victory, and would bind his successors to do the same. From that time, says Ferishta, it has been the general custom in the Deccan to spare...to shed the blood of an enemy's unarmed subjects. No sooner had the Sultan returned to Gulburga than he was again called away to Dowlatabad, where a... | |
| Joan-Pau Rubiés - History - 2002 - 476 pages
...always advocate such cruelty - at some point he commends 'the general custom in the Deccan' which is 'to spare the lives of prisoners in war, and not to shed the blood of an enemy's unarmed subjects'.77 However, bloodshed is still the corollary of a victory of such importance as that against... | |
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