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Aurangzeb’s twenty years’ Maratha War; his Despair and
Aurangzeb’s Oppression of Hindus ; Rajput Revolts, . . 366,367
Aurangzeb’s Provinces and Revenues, ..... 368, 369
Character of Aurangzeb, ....... 370
Six Puppet Successors of Aurangzeb, . . . . . 37r
Decline and Fall of the Mughal Empire (1707-1858), . . 370,371
Independence of the Deccan, Oudh, and Rajput States, . 372
Invasions of Nadir Shah the Persian , and Ahmad Shah the
Afghan (1739-1761),. 37 2 >373
Last Battle of Panipat (1761) and Fall of the Mughal Empire , 373, 374
CHAPTER XII.
THE MARATHA POWER (1634 TO 1818 A.D.).
India won, not from the Mughals , but from the Hindus , . 375
Rise of the Marathas ; Shahji Bhonsla (1634), . . . 375
The Hindu Party in Southern India, . . . . . 375
Sivaji the Great (1627-1680), 375
His Guerilla Warfare with the Mughals , .... 376-377Sambhaji (1680-1689); Sahu (1707), ..... 377
Rise of the Peshwas ; Balaji Viswanath, .... 378
Growth of the Maratha Confederacy, . . . . . 378
Maratha Raids to Deccan, Bengal, and the Punjab ; Chauth, 379Defeat of the Marathas at Panipat (1761), . . . . 379
The Five Great Maratha Houses; Decline of the Peshwis, . 379
British Wars with the Marathas (1779-1781, 1803-1804, and
1817-1818), ..380-382
CHAPTER XIII.
THE INDIAN VERNACULARS AND THEIR LITERATURE.
The Three Stages in Indian History,.383, 384
The Dravidian Route through India, ..... 385
The Dravidian Family of Languages ; its Place in Philology , . 385
Pre-Aryan Dravidian Civilisation,.386, 387
Brahmanic Influence on the Dravidians, .... 387
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