The Institutes of Akbar 135.2.1
The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 135.2.1
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135.2.1
Farmáns were also sent to the leading Shaikhs and ’Ulamás of the various districts to come to Court, as His Majesty wished personally to enquire into their grants (vide IId book, Áín 19) and their manner of living. When they came, the emperor examined them singly, “giving them private interviews, and assigned to them some lands, as he thought fit. But when he got hold of one who had disciples, or held spiritual soirées, or practised similar tricks, he confined them in forts, or exiled them to Bengal or Bhakkar. This practice became quite common. * * * The poor Shaikhs who were, moreover, left to the mercies of Hindu Financial Secretaries, forgot in exile their spiritual soirées, and had no other place where to live, except mouseholes.” [p. 284.]