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officer who bring them, which is then increased or decreased, though it is generally increased; for the market of His Majesty is never dull. The number of men brought before His Majesty depends on number of men available. Every Monday all such horsemen are mustered as were left from the preceding week. With the view of increasing army and zeal of officers, His Majesty gives to each who brings horsemen, a present of two dams for each horsemen.
147:(Ain 15), the royal seals (Ain 20), the imperial kitchen (Ain 23), and its recipes and the rules relating to the days of abstinence (Ain 26). The volume contains a detailed description of items such as fruits, vegetables, perfumes, carpets, etc., and also of art and painting. Ain-i-Akbari is an excellent resource for information on the maintenance of the Mughal army during Akbar's reign. Ain 35 deals with the use and maintenance of 212:(in the convention of the times, a laudatory foreword) for it. Ghalib obliged but wrote a short Persian poem castigating the Ai'n-e Akbari and by implication, the imperial, sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which it was a product. Ghalib practically reprimanded Syed Ahmad Khan for wasting his talent on 'dead things' and lavished praise on the "sahibs of England" who at that time held all the a’ins in this world. 238:
The business which Akbar Majesty transacts is multifarious. A large number of men were appointed on the days assembly of expenditure was announced. Their merits are inquired into and the coin of knowledge passes the current. Some pray his majesty to remove religious doubt; other again seek his advice
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first and then learn to trace their several forms. he ought to learn the shape and name of each letter, which may be done on two days, after which the boy should proceed to write joined letter. They may be practiced for a week after which boy should learn some prose and poetry by heart, and then
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The fourth book describes the social condition and literary activity, especially in philosophy and law, of the Hindus, who form the bulk of the population, and in whose political advancement the emperor saw the guarantee of the stability of his realm. There are also a few chapters on the foreign
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are fixed in a manner described below, and the men themselves are taken before His Majesty by the paymasters. Formerly it had been custom for man to come with horses and accoutrements; but now only men appointed to the post of Ahadi were allowed to bring horses. The salary is proposed by the
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The second book describes the treatment of the servants of the throne, the military and civil services, and the attendants at the court, who with their literary genius or musical skill received a great deal of encouragement from the emperor and similarly commended the high value of their work.
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is divided into five books. The first book called manzil-Abadi deals with the imperial household and its maintenance, and the second called sipah-abadi, with the servants of the emperor, military and civil services. The third entitled mulk-abadi deals with imperial administration, containing
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The volume has a total of 90 'Ain' or Regulations dealing with and describing the different segments of administration and occupations at that time. The various ains include the one on the imperial mint, its workmen and their process of refining and extracting gold and silver, the
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judiciary and executive regulations. The fourth contains information on Hindu philosophy, science, social customs, and literature. The fifth contains sayings of Akbar, along with an account of the ancestry and biography of the author.
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The third book is entirely devoted to regulations for the judicial and executive departments, the establishment of a new and more practical era, the survey of the land, the tribal divisions, and the rent-roll of the finance minister.
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Ain-i-Akbari was one of the first Persian texts to be translated into the English language. The original Persian text was translated into English in three volumes. The first volume, translated by
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commit to memory some verses to the praise of God, or moral sentences, each written separately. Care is to be taken that he learns everything by himself but the teacher must assist him a little.
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan gave up an active interest in history and archaeology. Although he did edit another two historical texts over the next few years, neither of them bore the scope of the
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for settling a worldly matter; other want medicines for their cure. Like these many other requests were made. The salaries of large number of men from
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The fifth book contains moral sentences and epigrammatical sayings, observations, and rules of wisdom of the emperor collected by Abu'l Fazl.
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invaders of India, on distinguished travelers, and on Muslim saints and the sects to which they belong.
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containing information on Akbar's reign in the form of administrative reports, similar to a
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believing that he would appreciate his labours. He approached the great Ghalib to write a
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Ghalib seemed to be acutely aware of changes in world polity due to the actions of the
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Volume 3: Mulk-Abadi (meaning government of a country or government establishment)
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His Majesty orders that every school boy must learn to write the letters of the
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finished his scholarly, well-researched and illustrated edition of Abul Fazl's
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Cohn, Bernard S. (1996). "Law and the Colonial state in India".
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Ayeen Akbery, Or, The Institutes of the Emperor Akber, Volume 1
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The Court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the
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Abu al-Fazl's A'in-i Akbari in Persian, Vol 1, Part 2 (of 2)
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Abu al-Fazl's A'in-i Akbari in Persian, Vol 1, Part 1 (of 2)
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Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India
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A'in-i Akbari of Abu al-Fazl, Volume 2, Ahval-i Hindustan
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Supplement to the first volume of Gladwin's Ayeen Akberi
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Volume 2: Sipah-Abadi (meaning military establishment)
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Volume 1: Manzil-Abadi (meaning place establishment)
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Index

Ain-e-Akbari

Akbarnama
Persian
Mughal Empire
Akbar
Abu'l Fazl
Persian language
Akbarnama
gazetteer
Blochmann
dirham
dinar
Imperial Harem
artillery
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Ai'n-e Akbari
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
great powers
Iran
Turkey
Europe
Hindustan
Kashmir
alphabet
Heinrich Blochmann
Asiatic Society
Calcutta
Mughal Karkhanas
Mughal Empire

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