Chapter 35
Gwalior Plain once the Bed of a Lake—Tameness
of Peacocks
Chapter 36
Gwalior and its Government
Chapter 37 [2]
Contest for Empire between the Sons of Shah Jahan
Chapter 38 [2]
Aurangzeb and Murad Defeat their Father’s Army
near Ujain
Chapter 39 [2]
Dara Marches in Person against his Brothers, and is
Defeated
Chapter 40 [2]
Dara Retreats towards Lahore—Is robbed
by the Jats—Their Character
Chapter 41 [2]
Shah Jahan Imprisoned by his Two Sons, Aurangzeb and
Murad
Chapter 42 [2]
Aurangzeb Throws off the Mask, Imprisons his Brother
Murad, and
Assumes the Government of the Empire
Chapter 43 [2] Aurangzeb Meets Shuja in Bengal, and Defeats him, after Pursuing Dara to the Hyphasis
Chapter 44 [2]
Aurangzeb Imprisons his Eldest Son—Shuja
and all his Family are
Destroyed
Chapter 45 [2]
Second Defeat and Death of Dara, and Imprisonment
of his Two Sons
Chapter 46 [2]
Death and Character of Amir Jumla
Chapter 47
Reflections on the Preceding History
Chapter 48
The Great Diamond of Kohinur
Chapter 49
Pindhari System—Character of the Maratha
Administration—Cause of
their Dislike to the Paramount Power
Chapter 50
Dholpur, Capital of the Jat Chiefs of Gohad—Consequence
of Obstacles
to the Prosecution of Robbers
Chapter 51
Influence of Electricity on Vegetation—Agra
and its Buildings
Chapter 52
Nur Jahan, the Aunt of the Empress Nur Mahal,[3] over
whose Remains
the Taj is built
Chapter 53
Father Gregory’s Notion of the Impediments to
Conversion in India—
Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern Languages
Chapter 54
Fathpur-Sikri—The Emperor Akbar’s
Pilgrimage—Birth of Jahangir
Chapter 55
Bharatpur—Dig—Want of Employment
for the Military and the Educated
Classes under the Company’s Rule
Chapter 56
Govardhan, the Scene of Kriahna’s Dalliance
with the Milkmaids
Chapter 57
Veracity
Chapter 58
Declining Fertility of the Soil—Popular
Notion of the Cause
Chapter 59
Concentration of Capital and its Effects
Chapter 60
Transit Duties in India—Mode of Collecting
them
Chapter 61
Peasantry of India attached to no existing Government—Want
of Trees
in Upper India—Cause and Consequence—Wells
and Groves
Chapter 62
Public Spirit of the Hindoos—Tree Cultivation
and Suggestions for
extending it
Chapter 63
Cities and Towns, formed by Public Establishments,
disappear as
Sovereigns and Governors change their Abodes