Twilight of the Sultanate c17.s8.62

c17.s8.62

¹⁷⁵ From the information given in the *Āīn-i-Akbarī* "the production of gold (in the country) appears to have been negligible: the silence of the visitors to the south may be taken as conclusive evidence that the Mysore gold fields were not worked at that time, and Abul Fazl tells only of the metal being washed from river-sand in some parts of Northern India....Silver too was obtained only in trifling quantities. Abul Fazl states that a mine existed in the province of Agra, but that it did not pay for working." Moreland, *op. cit.*, 146.