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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 159: For January, 1884-April, 1884, to Be Continued Quarterly
Erskine, in his History of India under Baber and Humayun, takes the sixteenth century as the period during which the European kingdoms settled down within limits of dominion that lasted without material change until towards the end of the eighteenth century, and he adds that the same period witnessed a somewhat similar settlement of the great Asiatic States. This generalisation can only be accepted, for either continent, in very rough and loose outline; but it may be admitted that in Asia the great internal commotions, and the conquests on a vast scale, ceased with the Emperor Baber's adventurous and brilliant establishment of the Moghal empire in India. We may also agree that to Asia, as well as to Europe, the latter part of the eighteenth century brought great political changes, and a remarkable redistribution of territorial dominion; nor can it be doubted that these movements are chiefly to be ascribed to the increasing pressure upon Western and Southern Asia of the disturbing elements and forces of Europe.
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