The Book "Ain e Akbari was written by Abul Fazl Allami and Translated by H. Blochmann in the Year 1894.

Publisher and Place: Andesite Press (August 23, 2017)

INTRODUCTION,

In presenting the concluding Volume of the Ain-e-Akbari to the public, I may permit the prefatory remarks of its author to serve as its best introduction. The range and diversity of its subjects and the untiring industry which collected and marshaled, through the medium of an
unfamiliar language, the many topics of information to their minutest details, treating of abstruse sciences, subtle philosophical problems, and the customs, social, political and religious of a different race and creed, will stand as an enduring monument of his learned and patient diligence. Comparing his work with the modern development of statistical science and our present accurate and exhaustive methods of tabulating the resources and summarising the extent of knowledge, the changes in the prevailing religious beliefs, in the laws, and in the administration of a state, and all that marks the relative, material and moral progress or decadence of a nation at any definite period, though there is much to be desired, his comprehensive and admirable survey yet merits the highest praise.

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