He was the first of the successors of Tamerlane who obtained possession of Bengal.

It is easy to show of what nature his conquest was.

It was over the last Mahomedan dynasty.

He, too, like his predecessor, Tamerlane, conquered the prince, not the country.

It is a certain mark that it was not a conquered country in the sense in which we commonly call a country conquered, that the natives, great men and landholders, continued in every part in the possession of their estates, and of the jurisdictions annexed to them.
It is true, that, in the several wars for the succession to the Mogul empire, and in other of their internal wars, severe revenges were taken, which bore resemblance to those taken in the wars of the Roses in this country, where it was the common course, in the heat of blood,--"Off with his head!--so much for Buckingham!" Yet, where the country again recovered its form and settlement, it recovered the spirit of a mild government.