Mughal Administration c8.s6.8

c8.s6.8

The *khufia-navis* or ‘secret writer’, was a most confidential agent. He reported secretly on events without any communication with the local authorities, who often did not even know his name. All people were in mortal dread of these secret intelligencers, and their office is, I understand, still maintained in some of our feudatory States.* [*Alamgir-nāmah*, 1081.]