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And then sheer, stark terror seized me, terror that knows no understanding, terror that knows no control, terror that no one can understand who has not experienced it.Land was declared social property and peasants were allowed to seize the land of the nobility.Encouraged by the Socialist Revolutionaries, peasants seized land between July and September 191 As the conflict between the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks grew, Lenin feared the Provisional Government would set up a dictatorship.Again british officers were killed, arms and ammunition seized, buildings set on fire.Their well-knit organization enabled them to put up a successful resistance to the Mughal governors first and then to Ahmad Shah Abdali who had seized the rich province of the Punjab and the Sarkar of Sirhind from the Mughals.1 am that enemy of yours who swore revenge on you, because you put my brother to death and seized my property.But these groups were now able to seize the economic resources of the region to consolidate their positions.Bit by bit I shed part of the panic that seized me when my head went under water.Although never a formal subadar, Murshid Quli Khan very quickly seized all the power that went with that office.Nagaur was conquered and annexed to the house of Jodhpur, while Amber seized large portions of Bundi.He seized a number of Rajput zamindaris and the agriculturally fertile lands of the Afghans of Rohilkhand.The English parliament, which had seized power from the monarchy in 1688 at the end of a protracted conflict, was the instrument through which a nation-state, with England at its centre, came to be forged.Malwa and Gujarat were seized from the Mughals by the 1720s.On each trip across the pool a bit of the panic seized me.But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of it's own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes.