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Studia Semitica et Orientalia. By Seven Members of Glasgow University Oriental Society. Glasgow, 1920.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1922

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1 The Marathas, however, owned no monopoly of this failing. Aurangzeb is recorded to have said (Sarkar, Anecdotes, p. 96) that “one cannot rule without practising deception … A government that is joined to cunning lasts and remains firm for ever … It is contrary to the Koran to consider stratagem as blameable”.