The Palace of the Seven Stories,— Beejapore. Engraved by W. Finden from a drawing by W. Purser based on a sketch by Captain R. N. Elliot, R.N. From the 1831 Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrapbook edited by Letitia E. Landon. 10. Click on image to enlarge it.
“Three Afghan or Patan dynasties succeeded one another, the advent of each being emblazoned in characters of blood and flame, till Tamerlane plunged all government again in destruction, killing 100,000 prisoners in cold blood before the walls of Delhi, and delivering up the city to incredible massacre and pillage, A.D. 1398. Out of the anarchy which ensued, two Mohammedan kingdoms arose in the Deccan— Golconda and Beejapore—wholly independent of the empire of Delhi.” — “The Company's Raj,” Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1857).
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Bibliography
“The Company's Raj.” Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 82 (Nov. 1857): 615-42. [complete text in the Victorian Web — George P. Landow].
L.E.L. [Landon, Letitia E.]. Ed. Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrapbook. London: Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1831. Hathi Trust Digital Library version of a copy in the University of Minnesota Library. Web. 21 July 2020.
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