Mughal Administration c14.s4.3

c14.s4.3

In the provinces there were State factories at Lahore, Agra, Fathpur and Ahmadabad, as well as Burhanpur and Kashmir. The governors of the various provinces could not have maintained factories of their own, (except on a very small scale), as they were liable to frequent transfer. But they patronised local products, as they had to supply the Emperor all the same with choice specimens of these. “The king and the princes keep officials in every one of these provinces, whose business it is to put in hand the best goods that can be fabricated in each place. With this object in view, they keep an eye continually upon what is being done in that respect" [by the local artisans]. (Storia, ii. 431.)