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whole Safawi period, and even beyond it, we shall, in a
subsequent volume, meet with a whole series of Persian
poets, including some of the most eminent of later days,
who emigrated from their own country to India to seek
their fortune at the splendid court of the so-called Mogul
Emperors, where, until the final extinction of the dynasty
in the Indian Mutiny, Persian continued to hold the posi¬
tion not only of the language of diplomacy but of polite
intercourse.