Mr. Fakhar Bilal's book presents a readable, comprehensive account of the Mughal Mansabdari system. It begins with the dynastic background of the Mughals with various theoretical types of Weber's authority and focus is Patrimonial Bureaucracy model. It is an attempt to analyze the Mansabdari system's birth, growth, maturity, senility and decay under the Mughal Emperors till 1707. The whole narration has been in a very telling style so that the birth of system stands on its merit and moves on. It argues that the Mughals lost control over the system after Jalal ud Din Muhammad Akbar, the...