A History of Agriculture in India v2.c81.s2.1

v2.c81.s2.1

Fruits were also imported from Afghanistan, Central Asia. Jahangir states, 'At the same stage they brought many melons grown in Kariz near Herat. In former years they had never brought melons in such abundance. On one tray they brought many kinds of fruit—Kariz melons, melons from Badakhshan and Kabul, grapes from Samarkand and Badakhshan, apples from Samarkand, Kashmir, Kabul, and from Jalalabad, which is a dependency of Kabul, and pineapple, a fruit that comes from the European ports, plants of which have been set in Agra. Every year some thousands are gathered in the gardens there which appertain to the private domains. Together with these there came oranges (*kaunlā*) from Bengal, and though that place is 1,000 *kos* distant most of them arrived quite fresh. As this is a very delicate and pleasant fruit, runners bring by post as much as is necessary for private consumption, and pass it from hand to hand.'²