Excerpt from Rulers of India We must therefore endeavour to realise what was the Empire at whose agony our hero assisted and to whose estate be, for a time, administered; and we must seek some samples of the anarchy from which he delivered Hindustan. At the same time, we shall have to remember that Sindhia was not, originally, a native of Hindustan; and we must study, however briefly, the nature of that strange community in Southern India which, taking up the lapsed greatness of the old kingdom of Karnata, almost succeeded in uniting the entire Indian peninsula in a universal Hindu Empire. To do all this requires that we should be prepared to find copious and variegated materials digested into a result which may be found undesirably narrow. A small book may be found hard to read - as it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.