The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c15.3

c15.3

In the *Āīn*, i, 251—254, there is a chapter headed *Piyādagān* which corresponds generally to the *Ahshām* of the later books. Under the same head as Akbar's 12,000 matchlockmen, who are the only men in the group at all entitled to be reckoned as soldiers, come the doorkeepers, the palace guards, the letter carriers and spies, the swordsmen, wrestlers, slaves, litter-bearers, carpenters, water-carriers and so forth. In the *Āīn*, i, 254, there is a class of troops called *Dākhilī* (extra, additional) which seems no longer to have existed in *‘Ālamgīr’s* reign, at least the name has dropped out of the official manuals.