A Study in the Economic Condition of Ancient India c3.3

c3.3

It is with the above problems that I seek to deal in the present thesis. In the sections treating of the territorial divisions, the population and weights and measures evidence is disclosed that tends to show that the record presented by Abu’l-Fazl in his *Āīn-i-Akbarī* was based to some extent at least on records that had also been maintained in the Hindu period. The statistics given in respect of the numbers of *mahāls* or *parganas*, the information supplied as to the number of troops on the muster-roll, and as to weights, measures and coins bear a remarkably close resemblance to the facts and figures revealed by my investigations into the conditions of the Hindu period, a resemblance that cannot reasonably be ascribed to chance.