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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
1 The Marathas, however, owned no monopoly of this failing. Aurangzeb is recorded to have said (Sarkar, Anecdotes, p. 96) that “one cannot rule without practising deception … A government that is joined to cunning lasts and remains firm for ever … It is contrary to the Koran to consider stratagem as blameable”.