Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.11

c17.11

The above two quotations are typical of the two divergent views on the point, the one or the other of which may be found in several other books that profess themselves to be autobiographies of Jahāngīr, e.g. *Iqbāl-Nāmah*, *Tārīkhi-Salīm-Shāhī*, *Jahāngīr-Nāmah*, etc., as also in other historical records. The position that Akbar was unlettered cannot however be accepted for various reasons. The fact of Humāyūn’s appointment of ’Abdul Laṭīf as tutor to his son, who, however, did not arrive at the Court till after the death of the Emperor, proves