Later Mughals v1.c4.s7.2

v1.c4.s7.2

By the end of November 1893 the narrative had been carried down to the death of Sayyid Abdullah (ch. vi. 24), i.e., all that he lived to see through the press. Then, he tells us, "in 1894 I began the preparatory studies for an account of the later Moghul system of government and administration in all its branches, being impelled by the belief that some information of the kind was a necessary introduction to a History of that period, which I had previously commenced. Before I had done more than sketch out my first part, which deals with the Sovereign, the Court Ceremonial, and the elaborate system of Entitlature, I noticed the issue of a book on a part of my subject by Dr. Paul Horn. The perusal of this excellent work diverted my attention to a later section of my proposed Introduction, —the subject of the Army." (J.R.A.S., 1896, p. 509). This sketch of the Army Organization of the Indian Mughals was published in 1896 covering 61 pages of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and reissued as a book in an amplified form in 1903.