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“No barbarities were left unpractised. The tax imposed was strictly exacted. What numbers destroyed themselves with their own hands.’

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Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?".

For some days after the massacre the streets of the doomed quarters of Dihli became impassable from the stench of the corpses filling the houses, wells and roadside, none venturing to approach them in fear.

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