Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c22.23

c22.23

Caligraphists (fine penmen): Attached to Akbar’s court, 159 Employed on scientific works under Sikandar, 77 Royal, 14, 22, 44, 84, 111, 123, 192 Caligraphy (fine penmanship): Akbar’s encouragement of, 159 Bābarī hand, designed by Bābar, 123 Cultivated by Muḥammadan Emperors, 14, 158 Indian Fables in, to Akbar’s order, 142 Large sums paid for, 69 Modes of, in Akbar’s time, 158 Muḥammad Tughlaq’s mastery of, 44 Naṣīruddīn, Sulṭān, earns his food by, 22 Prices, high, for MSS., 176 *Razm-Nāmah* MS., said to have cost Akbar £40,000, 153 (note) Caprice, a Sulṭān’s, ruinous effects of, 46-47 Censors of literature, 5, 7, 48 Chahār Minār, College at Ḥaidarābād: Founded by Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, 95 Visited and described by Thevenot, 95