Mughal Administration c18.s1.2

c18.s1.2

As Mr. W. Crooke writes,—"No one who reads the *Ain-i-Akbari*, the cyclopædic annals of his rule, can fail to be conscious of a certain lack of departmental perspective. Akbar was a master of detail: but here detail is pushed to the extreme. We find careful accounts of the organisation of the camp and household, the stable and wardrobe, the armoury and the hunting establishment.........On the other hand, we learn little of the essentials of administration as we understand it—about the police and judicial services, the development of the national resources, the relief of famine, education and medical aid." (N. W. P. 101-102.) "What trust is to be placed in the figures of the *Ain-i-Akbari* it is difficult to say. . . In respect to the revenue recorded in the *Ain-i-Akbari* it may be questioned whether it was not an ideal assessment, and whether it was ever collected for the State." (J. R. Reid.)