Description
OF the making of books concerning the Mughal period of Indian history there is no end, and many volumes dealing with the lives of the emperors and with various aspects of Mughal administrative activity testify to the spell exercised upon the minds of men by the story of the Timurids of Delhi. In preparing the present book our main object has been to offer to the public, within the·~convenient compass of a single cover, a comprehensive record of the main facts and subsidiary details of Mughal sovereignty which are to be found both in original ·sources and in the numerous and occasionally costly works of modern writers.