Mughal Administration c16.s3.28

c16.s3.28

Aurangzib’s procedure was the same, as we find in his Court-history, Alamgir-nāmah, p. 1101, which adds, "The beginnings of certain letters, addressed to the great nobles, were written by the Emperor with his own hand, in order to exalt and gratify the persons addressed, or to emphasise the urgency of the order and the importance of the matter written about, . . . . or to remove all doubt about their genuineness."