Akbar the Great (1542 1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced by Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551 1602). Between 1783 and 1786, the scholar Francis Gladwin (1744/5 1812) produced an English translation from the original Persian. Reissued here is the two-volume edition that appeared in 1800. As the work's dedicatee and Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings had seen the translation as illuminating the Mughal Empire's 'original constitution' and believed it would educate and inform...
Akbar the Great (1542 1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced...
Akbar the Great (1542 1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced by Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551 1602). Between 1783 and 1786, the scholar Francis Gladwin (1744/5 1812) produced an English translation from the original Persian. Reissued here is the two-volume edition that appeared in 1800. As the work's dedicatee and Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings had seen the translation as illuminating the Mughal Empire's 'original constitution' and believed it would educate and inform...
Akbar the Great (1542 1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced...
