Mughal Administration c12.s7.1

c12.s7.1

In Mughal India, as in mediæval Europe, education was a branch of religion, and the educational expenditure of the State was defrayed out of the Alms Fund and through the hands of the imperial Almoner (Sadar-us-sadur.) The vast non-Muslim population was outside the pale of State charity. We have a farman of the earlier part of Aurangzib’s reign which illustrates this arrangement. He instructs the diwan of Gujrat that every year