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In due time Central Asia supplied the forces of a fresh invasion which substituted for the Hindu system of a sacerdotal and military aristocracy, the Mohammedan system of a despotic power exercised by a social democracy under the influence of religious enthusiasm, swayed by rulers who claimed civil and military obedience as the direct agents and oracles of God. The Mohammedan dominion continued so long as its vigour was renewed from the hardy trans- Himalayan territories of Central Asia, but fo...llowing the universal law it declined under the enervating influence of the tropical plains of India. The period that followed had its analogy in the conflict between Paganism and Christianity, and the consequent segregation of State units which followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The rise of the Mahrattas against Mohammedanism failed to estab- lish a power sufficient to control the disintegrating influences which converted India into the loot of princes and powers supported by Pindarries and other organised bandit systems ready to play the part of the condottie^'i in mediaeval Europe.
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