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Delhi before the Moghal Conquest Moghal chief. Previously to this a brazen bull,taken in an expedition to the south, had been set up opposite the Baghdad Gate of Siri. Here we may commence a new chapter, in the course of which we shall see Delhi rise to the zenith of its splendour, and fall again, through many vicissitudes, to a comparatively unimportant position, with an extent of dependent territory,which was not more than a mere estate, the rents from which supplemented the king's pension from the Honourable East India Company. 209