The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 190
of a place among the en-chanted fabrics of the Arabian Nights. The wealth with which the Moguls surrounded themselvesis revealed by the magnitude of the loot which Nadir Shahcarried with him to Persia, after the sack of Delhi. Weare told that this treasure amounted to 160,000,000 inplate, jewels,… … H THE TAJ MAHAL 103 the Moguls declined, till in 1827 the Great Mogul becamea pensioner of the British. When the Indian Mutinybroke out, an endeavor was made to revive the dynasty,and Bahadur was crowned Emperor of Hindustan atDelhi. For his complicity in the Mutiny he was pun-ished by banishment…
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