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PERSIANS GAIN FAME.
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Indian troops recognised that in the PersiansEnhanced military reputation of the Persians. they had met with more than their match. And throughout the rest of the century the rumour of a projected invasion from Persia used to throw the Court of Delhi into the greatest alarm.[1] For years afterwards the Persian peril hung like a dark cloud on the western frontier of India, and the Emperor Aurangzib and his ministers drew their breath more easily when any warlike Shah of Persia died.
- ↑ Masir-i-Alamgiri, 56—58, Alamgirnamah, 974, Anecdotes of Aurangzib, §§ 50, 51, and 52.
