Mughal Administration c18.s4.3

c18.s4.3

Father Monserrate’s account of the government and Court of Akbar (Eng. tr., pp. 203-212, justice pp. 209-211), and De Laet’s very brief reference to the Court (Eng. tr., pp. 93-99) are too meagre and shallow. Manucci in his *Storia do Mogor*, ii, 329-390, 415-421, and 449-452, gives a description of the Mughal administration Court and society, which, though short and often superficial, is valuable for its criticism and personal observations. In the Court news-letters of Aurangzib’s and his successors’ reigns, called *Akhbarat-i-darbar-i-muala*, we have occasional mention of changes in administrative rules and many illustrations of the actual effect of the system. The Marathi documents (mostly legal decisions and orders in favour of individuals, title-deeds &c) printed by Rajwade in many volumes, are another mass of illustrations, mostly later than the 17th century.