Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c21.21

c21.21

In concluding this note, I may state that Mr. Beveridge himself has not felt positive about the subject under discussion. In his translation of the *Akbar-Nāmah* (vol. i. p. 518 n.), he writes, "It seems *probable*, too, that Akbar never knew how to read and write."