The war of succession: "Representation et description du soulevement des IV. Princes du Mogol contre L'Empereur leur pere et du Combat dans lequel Aureng-Zeb demeura vainqueur de ses trois Freres & se fit ensuite Proclamer Empereur," an engraving probably by Chatelain, c.1720; *the whole page*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007


"The English ask pardon of Aurangzeb, whom they have offended"; a French view, 1780

Source: ebay, July 2004

"Title: "LES ANGLOIS DEMANDENT PARDON A AURENGZEB QU'ILS ONT OFFENSE": from "Histoire Philosophique et Politique Des Establissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans Les Deux Indes", by Guillaume Thomas Raynal, published in Geneva, 1780."


Shivaji and the Marathas, however, proved to be beyond his power to defeat

Source: http://www.history.upenn.edu/coursepages/hist086/material/ebmaratha.gif
(downloaded May 2006)


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