ntinued to be
Muhammadan. The services of Sikandar Begam in the Mutiny are well
known. Malwa is the country lying between Bundelkhand, on the east,
and Rajputana, on the west, and includes Bhopal. Most of the states
in this region are now ruled by Hindoos, but the local dynasty which
ruled the kingdom of Malwa and Mandu from A.D. 1401 to 1531 was
Musalman. (See Thomas, _Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Dehli_, pp.
346-53.)

5. All near relatives succeed to a Muhammadan's estate, which is
divided, under complicated rules, into the necessary number of
shares. A son's share is double that of a daughter. As between
themselves all sons share equally.

6. Bernier's _Revolutions of the Mogul Empire_. [W. H. S.] The author
seems to have used either the London edition of 1671, entitled _The
History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul_, or
one of the reprints of that edition. The anecdote referred to is
called by Bernier 'an uncommonly good story'. Aurangzeb made a long
speech, ending by dismissing the unlucky pedagogue with the words:
'Go! withdraw to thy native village. Henceforth let no man know
either who thou art, or what is become of thee.' (Bernier, _Travels
in the Mogul Empire_, pp. 154-161, ed. Constable and V. A, Smith,
1914.) Manucci repeats the story with slight variations (_Storie da
Mogor_, vol. ii, pp. 29-33).

7. Compare the forcible description of the state of the Delhi royal
family in Chapter 76, _post_. The old emperor's pension was one
hundred thousand rupees a month. The events of the Mutiny effected a
considerable clearance, though the number of persons claiming
relationship with the royal house is still large. A few of these have
taken service under the British Government, but have not
distinguished themselves.

8. The author, unfortunately, does not give the dimensions of this
piece. Rumi Khan's gun at Bijapur, which was cast in the sixteenth
century at Ahmadnagar, is generally considered the largest ancient
cannon in India. It is fifteen feet long, and weighs about forty-one
tons, the calibre being two feet four inches. Like the gun at Datiya,
it is painted with red lead, and is worshipped by Hindoos, who are
always ready to worship every manifestation of power. Another big gun
at Bijapur is thirty feet in length, built up of bars bound together.
Other very large pieces exist at Gawilgarh in Berar, and Bidar in the
Nizam's dominions. (Balfour, _Cyclopaedia_, 3rd ed., s.v. Gun,