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Write brief essay – Sher Shah combined in himself qualities of lion and fox.

  • UPSC 1999
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The Machiavellian ideal of a ruler who plans like a fox and strikes like a lion finds an unusually literal illustration in Sher Shah Suri.

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  • The Fox — Cunning, Deception, and Patient Calculation
  • The Lion — Battlefield Boldness and Enlightened Despotism

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