Shah Alam bore, in
weakness and misery, the burden of the imperial title from 1759 to
1806. From 1765 to 1771 he was the dependent of the English at
Allahabad. From 1771 to 1803 he was usually under the control of
Maratha chiefs, and from the time of Lord Lake's entry into Delhi, in
1803 he became simply a prisoner of the British Government. His
successors occupied the same position. In 1788 he was barbarously
blinded by the Rohilla chief, Ghulam Kadir.
4. Akbar II. His position as Emperor was purely titular.
5. The name is printed as Booalee Shina in the original edition. His
full designation is Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdullah ibn Sina, which
means 'that Sina was his grandfather. Avicenna is a corruption of
either Abu Sina or Ibn Sina. He lived a strenuous, passionate life,
but found time to compose about a hundred treatises on medicine and
almost every subject known to Arabian science. He died in A.D. 1037.
A good biography of him will be found in _Encyclo. Brit._, 11th ed.,
1910.
6. Otherwise called Eurasians, or, according to the latest official
decree, Anglo-Indians.
7. 'Diplomatic characters' would now be described as officers of the
Political Department.
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