Crossword-Solution: NAWABS 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Over a country like India, broken up into many sections by physical features, climate, industries, and language, the Mohammedan conquerors,--the "Great Mogul" and his viceroys, called nawabs, [Footnote: More popularly "nabobs."]--found it impossible to establish more than a loose sovereignty, many of the native princes or "rajas" still being allowed to rule with considerable independence, and the millions of Hindus feeling little love or loyalty for their emperor.

The rulers or nawabs (nabobs) of the Deccan, of Bengal, and of Oudh had become semi-independent princes.

Desmond did not like his Latin, but he found compensation in the traveler's tales of which Diggle had an inexhaustible store--tales of shipwreck and mutiny, of wild animals and wild men, of Dutch traders and Portuguese adventurers, of Indian nawabs and French bucaneers.

Tell me, what's this grand procession to-day? Is it to be like a durbar at home, when all the rajahs and nawabs come together with their elephants and trains?" "Oh, no, no, no!" cried Glyn, laughing.

The viziers and nawabs that ruled in the name of the emperors rendered them neither obedience nor tribute.