Mughal Administration c2.2

c2.2

The book has been minutely revised for the third edition and all the doubtful points satisfactorily cleared by a fresh study of the Persian sources. The additions amount to nearly five pages. Full use has also been made of the *Encyclopædia of Islam*, now within sight of completion, by giving references to it wherever possible, in order to show how my views find support in this standard work and also to guide the reader to all the greatest authorities on Muslim Law and institutions cited therein. This is the shortest and most effective method of answering a Calcutta pleader who has attacked my statements, because my readers will hardly consider his ignorance of the primary sources on Islam and of Mughal state papers as compensated for by the brass of avocasserie.