Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.12

c17.12

the solicitude of the latter for his son's education, and it is not at all likely that he, and after his death, Bairām the guardian, should have left the education of the future monarch in a precarious state. Bairām, it appears, chose 'Abdul Laṭīf as Akbar's tutor later on.¹ Moreover, there is distinct record that Pīr Muḥammad Khān² and Ḥājī Muḥammad Khān³ were also his tutors. Besides, an "entirely uneducated" or "illiterate" person is not in a position to *appreciate* conversations on learned topics, enjoy abstruse controversies or take part in discussions with learned men, much less to appreciate the elegances of literary compositions. This inference is supported, at any rate, by Abul Faẓl who makes some positive remarks about Akbar's education. He says that when the Emperor was four years, four months, four days old⁴ on the 20th November, 1547, he was put to school and Maulānā A'ẓamuddīn was charged with the responsible task of educating him.⁵