Chapter MOGUL of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Paradise Lost, xi. 389–91.

c. 1665.—“L’Empire du Grand-Mogol, qu’on nomme particulierement le Mogolistan, est le plus étendu et le plus puissant des Roiaumes des Indes.…Le Grand Mogol vient en ligne directe de Tamerlan, dont les descendants qui se sont établis aux Indes, se sont fait appeller Mogols.…”—Thevenot, v. 9.

1672.—“In these beasts the Great Mogul takes his pleasure, and on a stately Elephant he rides in person to the arena where they fight.”—Baldaeus (Germ. ed.), 21.

1673.—“It is the Flower of their Emperor’s Titles to be called the Great Mogul, Burrore (read Burrow, see Fryer’s Index) Mogul Podeshar, who…is at present Auren Zeeb.”—Fryer, 195.

1716.—Gram Mogol. Is as much as to say ‘Head and king of the Circumcised,’ for Mogol in the language of that country signifies circumcised” (!)—Bluteau, s.v.

1727.—“Having made what observations I could, of the Empire of Persia, I’ll travel along the Seacoast towards Industan, or the Great Mogul’s Empire.”—A. Hamilton, i. 115, [ed. 1744].

1780.—“There are now six or seven fellows in the tent, gravely disputing whether Hyder is, or is not, the person commonly called in Europe the Great Mogul.”—Letter of Munro, in Life, i. 27.

1783.—“The first potentate sold by the Company for money, was the Great Mogul—the descendant of Tamerlane.”—Burke Speech on Fox’s E.I. Bill, iii. 458.

1786.—“That Shah Allum, the prince commonly called the Great Mogul, or, by eminence, the King, is or lately was in possession of the ancient capital of Hindostan. …”—Art. of Charge against Hastings, in Burke, vii. 189.

1807.—“L’Hindoustan est depuis quelque temps dominé par une multitude de petits souverains, qui s’arrachent l’un l’autre leurs possessions. Aucun d’eux ne reconnait comme il faut l’autorité légitime du Mogol, si ce n’est cependant Messieurs les Anglais, lesquels n’ont pas cessé d’être soumis à son obéissance; en sort qu’actuellement, c’est à dire en 1222 (1807) ils reconnaissent l’autorité suprême d’Akbar Schah, fils de Schah Alam.”—Afsos, Araish-i-Mahfil, quoted by Garcin de Tassy, Rel. Mus. 90.