"Battle of Panipat" Quotes from Famous Books
... the storms of fortune. We, who know Babar by his memoirs, in which he unfolds the secrets of his heart, confesses all his faults, and details all his ambitions, may think that he might have done this if he had had the opportunity. But the opportunity was denied to him. The time between the first battle of Panipat, which gave him {7} the north-western provinces of India, and his death, was too short to allow him to think of much more than the securing of his conquests, and the adding to them of additional provinces. He entered India a conqueror. ... — Rulers of India: Akbar • George Bruce Malleson |