Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.8

c17.8

autobiography, to be “entirely uneducated.” On the other hand, the *Wāqī’āti-Jahāngīrī*, which also styles itself to be an autobiography of the same royal personage, only says that though Akbar was not profoundly learned, yet his conversation with the learned might lead one to believe that he was profoundly learned in every branch of science. *It does not say that he was utterly unlettered.* The description is as follows:—