Lucknow occupies the site of a Hindoo city of great
antiquity.
12. It would be difficult to point out an example of a _Muhammadan_
standing camp which was first converted into an open, and then into a
fortified town.
13. This abstract of the history of the Deccan, or Southern India, is
not quite accurate. The Emperor, or Sultan, Muhammad bin Tughlak,
after A.D. 1325, reduced the Deccan to a certain extent to
submission, but the country revolted in A.D. 1347, when Hasan Gango
founded the Bahmani dynasty of Gulbarga, afterwards known as that of
Bidar. At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth
century, the kingdom so founded broke up into five, not four,
separate states, namely, Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda, Berar, and
Bidar. The Berar state had a separate existence for about eighty-five
years, and then became merged in the kingdom of Ahmadnagar.
CHAPTER 64
Murder of Mr. Fraser, and Execution of the Nawab Shams-ud-din.
At Palwal Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Wright, who had come on business, and
Mr. Gubbins, breakfasted and dined with us. They complained sadly of
the solitude to which they were condemned, but admitted that they
should not be able to get through half so much business were they
placed at a large station, and exposed to all the temptations and
distractions of a gay and extensive circle, nor feel the same
interest in their duties, or sympathy with the people, as they do
when thrown among them in this manner.
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