Starting Building – Provincial Barracks, Thakur’s Court Plantations – Assam Plantations (Not Developed), Daulatpur Plantations (Small Spice Plantation) Later Villages/Ports – Patna (Village), Dacca (Village) Starting Towns/Ports – Saharsa Wetlands (Rice Paddies), Rajshahi Wetlands (Not Developed), Bhagalpur (Tavern), Port of Calcutta (Trading Port) Starting Buildings – Provincial Barracks, Thakur’s Court, Nautch Dancing School Plantations – Bhainsa Plantations (Small Tea Plantation).Later Villages/Ports – Golconda (Village), Nizamabad (Village), Kurnool (Village).Starting Towns/Ports – Mancheral Wetlands (Not Developed), Suriapet Farmlands (Peasant Farms).Starting Buildings – Cannon Foundry, Thakur’s Mansion, Settlement Fortifications.Plantations – Srinagar Plantations (Not Developed), Najibabad (Small Sugar Plantation).Later Villages/Ports – Gorakphur (Village).Starting Towns/Ports – Aligarh Wetlands (Not Developed), Bhiwani Farmland (Peasant Farms), Bansdih Wetlands (Not Developed), Gwalior (Tavern), Benares (School), Sitapur (Craft Workshops Weavers), Delhi (Craft Workshops Weavers).Starting Buildings – Provincial Barracks, Ordnance Factory, Nautch Dancing School, Settlement Fortifications.Scholars – Mohinder Shafi ( Hindustan), Sikandar Borah ( Hindustan).Thugees – Alam Rathor ( Berar), Baharji Bakhsh ( Gujarat).Imams – Firuz Shafi ( Berar), Afzal Panni ( Rajpootana).Trade Partners – Persia, United Provinces, the Ottoman Empire, Mysore, Portugal.At some point, a line must be drawn – or better still, a Mughal should make demands of a European, in Europe. They seek concessions, and land, and more concessions. They seek power in India without any real understanding of what that means. The ambitions of the Europeans may need to be checked, sooner or later. But why should he wish it? Why should he not? Should he wish it, a Mughal ruler need only lift his finger to lay waste his enemies by the thousand.

Their armies are, in poetic terms, numberless, and their power cannot be easily measured. The Mughals are secure within their borders, although those borders are so extensive that even “local” problems can involve vast numbers of people.

Once India was conquered, they adopted much that is good from the local culture: the result is a rich and heady mixture of Indian, Persian and Mongol that produces an empire that is distinctive and Indian, both in the way it is run and the way it fights wars. Now Muslim rather than pagan, they have also absorbed much of the language and high culture of Persia. While the Mughal emperors are the descendants of Genghis Khan, their history has changed them. Their Indian empire has stood the test of time, and is possibly the wealthiest state in the whole world. Mughal power is mighty indeed, as befits the children of Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes.

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