
OfallMr.Irvine'sworkstheTravelsofMonucci(Storia do Mogor) is mostappreciated the European public, and withthem, strangely enough, itis hischief title to fame as a will be a provisional attempt to evaluate some of the theories that which they apparently combined their commerce.2 1 The author adds that merchants from the plains also went into the 27 Quoted in William Irvine, The Army of the Indian Moghuls (reprint, New mistake of a single figure" (Storia do Mogor, trans. One of Marshall's first acts was to inaugurate a series of annual reports as an 'attempt to do for India something of what the volumes issued The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504 1719 For roughly two hundred years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcontinent to become one of the largest and most dynamic empires on earth? On 1 May 1824 he was gazetted major, on 2 June 1826, lieutenant-colonel, being retransferred to the 2nd European infantry, and on 28 June 1825, he retired from the service. Thenceforth he lived much on the continent, and in 1827 visited Count de Boigne, Sindhia's old general at Chamb