THE subjoined compilation embraces much new matter, which was necessarily omitted from the brief Appendix on the Revenues of the Mughals, inserted in my late work on “ The Pathan Kings of Delhi.” 'The growing interest of the subject, and the surprise expressed at the amounts realized at these periods, have induced me to scrutinize more fully the available data, and to present them in the amplified form of a Supplement to the “Chronicles” of the race, whose defeat secured the dominion of the Mogul.

Before entering upon the details of Akbar’s revenue, it may be as well to dispose of the earlier returns of Firfiz Shah and Babar, which in their modest totals only confuse the sequence of the Mughal lists, and in reality have little or no bearing upon the State resources of the later periods,‘ which were derived from so much more extended an Mughul Empire.