The India of Aurangzib (Topography Statistics and Roads) Compared with the India of Akbar

good account of the products of Hindustan and its geography as known in the time of Aurangzib." The author's account of the early kings of Delhi is brief and that of the first four Mughal Emperors copious. [...] The names of the Sarkars the numbers of the mahais and the amount of the revenue as given by our author enable us to institute an interesting comparison with the Ain that is to make a comparative study however rude and incomplete —of the India of Akbar (1594 A. J) and the India of Aurangzib (1695 A. D.). [...] The former (which I call the A-text) was copied '`on the loth of the month of Zi-qada in the 9th year of the reign of Muhammad Shah [1728 A. D.] at the time of the feast of Na11-777 7 in the evening of Saturday (Colophon). [...] Second who increased the splendour of the throne in the year 1173 A. H. with the help of the Wazir of the Empire Ghaziu-din Khan alias Shahabu-d din Khan at the time of the second invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali " The style is terse and precise. [...] no value ; but the work has other points of interest especially in the matter of the Biographies of the Muhamadan saints which arc written in a true spirit of belief though the writer is a flinch" The accounts of the Hindu fakirs the Itineraries and the Statistical Tables of the 22 Subas are also useful though it is to be regretted that the latter are not given in sufficient detail to ena