This book deals with comparatively shortlived kings and kingdoms-Mahrattas, Southern Sultans, Sikhs and Jats who fired by patriotic sentiments and fighting heroically against heavy odds dislodged foreign government but not long afterwards were replaced by another foreign power. It is a curious fact of history that just as Shivaji whose 'Conception of a Hindu Empire' was unfailing and Aurangzeb between them created the history of the latter half of the seventeenth ...
