Mughal Administration c2.1

c2.1

This volume has grown out of two courses of six lectures each delivered by me as Reader in Indian History at the Patna University in January 1920 and February 1921. The first edition of the book (published in 1921) contained only the first year's lectures. The second edition (1924) was more than double the size of the first, as it contained in addition to both courses of lectures, two altogether new chapters. In the preparation of the second edition a more exhaustive study of the *Ain-i-Akbari* and the *Mirat-i-Ahmadi* was made and very important information derived from a correct manuscript of the *Mirat-i-Ahmadi* with useful marginal glosses which was traced in the O.P.L., Patna. The sections on illegal exactions, news-reporters, the judiciary etc. were, in the second edition, so fully re-written as to have become practically new. Moreover, the chapter on Aurangzib's Revenue Rules (originally published as a part of my *Studies in Mughal India*) was now added to this volume, and it will be omitted from future editions of the *Studies* as more appropriate here than there.