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Mughal Administration c18.s2.6

Mughal Administration c18.s2.6

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c18.s2.6

Then we have tables of weights (as current in different places), the exchange value of the coins of different countries outside India, a list of the forts in the empire, the number of the mansabdars grade by grade, rules about promotion, dismissal and sick-leave—in short all kinds of salary-rules; the special salaries of European gunners sappers and cannon-founders (*Z.* 60*b*—62*b*), powder-supply to musketeers (*Z.* 63*a*), classification of arms, rates of *jaziya*, list of seasons appropriate for voyages (*Z.* 67*a*—68*a*), the revenue of Persia, the escheated properties of various princes, princesses and nobles, lists of presents received from Persia, the amounts in the imperial treasure-rooms (Z. 132b), lists of karkhanahs (Z. 132b—133a), lists of the abwabs abolished by Aurangzib and of the practices declared by him as illegal (Z. 135a—137a), details about Aurangzib’s armaments at the sieges of Bijapur, Golkonda, etc., with descriptions of some of the Deccan forts of his time,—and many more details about the Emperor’s Deccan campaigns and statistics about his Deccan provinces.