Chapter XVI

Aurungzebe--End of Middle Age--Unamiable character--Good
king--Quarrel with Mahrattas under Siva-ji--Likeness between
Aurungzebe and the Mahratta general--Extreme astuteness of
latter--Additional grants to England--Help promised by James
II. to East India Company--Sir John Child as scapegoat--
India's coral strand--Aurungzebe's untiring energy--His
deathbed.

PART III

THE MODERN AGE