Indian history is a long and full of diverse pageants. Many kings and emperors, conquorers and adventurers, tyrants and despots, dictators and duces have strutted across its stage and then passed into oblivion. Our history has largely been a narration of their achievements and failures, a record of their crusades and enterprises, a catalogue of their passions and prejudices, a tale of their pride, cruelty, eccentricities and ambition.