Lodhi dynasty were nominal occupants of the throne of this great empire but, ln reality, the country was por tioned out into territories — the possession of many Chieftains and princes — each with supreme and irres ponsible rule in his own dominions, having the most lax and inefficient governments, and at enmity with and jealous of all his neighbours. Those despotic rulers, who can appropriately be called robbers, considered it their chief duty to rob the peasantry of all, they possess ed; but they had no will or leisure to think of their prosperity.