“There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 23, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 448)
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Francisco Pelsaert (1591–1630) Dutch merchant, commander of the ship Batavia
Pelsaert, Jahangir’s India, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
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