124 GARDENS OF THE PLAINS DELHI 



together for fifty years, by skill and will-power 

 combined with unscrupulous cunning. Then as 

 his iron nerve and hand relaxed in death the 

 great Empire of the Mughals crumbled and fell, 

 and with its downfall passed the greatest of the 

 arts and crafts it fostered. 



Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah 

 Jahan, Aurungzeb, six famous names ! But who 

 has heard of the nine Emperors who followed ? 

 On the last alone, Bahadur Shah, in the flare 

 of the great rebellion the light is cast, a poor 

 old man of eighty surrounded by his mimic Court, 

 his Empire bounded by the rose-red walls of this 

 palace-fortress of Delhi. 



