Mughal Administration c14.s3.1

c14.s3.1

In popular parlance there were 12 treasuries and 36 *karkhanahs*, as we find even in Shakir Khan’s memoirs. The Marathi histories cited above mention only 18 *karkhanahs*, though these two works do not agree with each other as to their names. The *Zawābit-i-Alamgiri* (f. 132b) gives a list of 69 *karkhanahs*, but, on account of the bad writing of the MS. some of the names cannot be clearly read. The *Ain-i-Akbari* separately describes 26 of the *karkhanahs* and indirectly or briefly refers to 10 others, making a total of 36.