It is a Persian treatise in three volumes composed by Abul Fazl, the minister of the Mughal Emperor Akbar and entitled the A-in-i-Akbari or the Institute of Akbar. Abul Fazl, putting himself at the head of a body of scholars undertook geographical, physical and historical description of the empire, accompanied by statistical data. Each of the sixteen Subhas or governments of which the Mughal empire was then composed, is there described with minute exactitude; the ...
