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Title: Rulers of India: Akbar
Author: George Bruce Malleson
Release Date: March 9, 2010 [EBook #31572]
Language: English
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_RULERS OF INDIA_
EDITED BY
SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
M.A. (OXFORD): LL.D. (CAMBRIDGE)
AKBAR
_London_
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE
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[Illustration: MAP OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE]
RULERS OF INDIA
AKBAR
BY COLONEL G. B. MALLESON, C.S.I.
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS: 1890
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGES
I. THE ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
II. THE FAMILY AND EARLY DAYS OF BABAR . . . . . . . . . . 12-16
III. BABAR CONQUERS KABUL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-25
IV. BABAR'S INVASIONS OF INDIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-34
V. THE POSITION OF BABAR IN HINDUSTAN . . . . . . . . . . 35-49
VI. HUMAYUN AND THE EARLY DAYS OF AKBAR . . . . . . . . . 50-59
VII. HUMAYUN INVADES INDIA. HIS DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . 60-64
VIII. AKBAR'S FIGHT FOR HIS FATHER'S THRONE . . . . . . . . 65-71
IX. GENERAL CONDITION OF INDIA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-80
X. THE TUTELAGE UNDER BAIRAM KHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . 81-90
XI. CHRONICLE OF THE REIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91-145
XII. THE PRINCIPLES AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF AKBAR . 146-200
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201-204
_NOTE_
The orthography of proper names follows the system adopted by the
Indian Government for the _Imperial Gazetteer of India_. That system,
while adhering to the popular spelling of very well-known places,
such as Punjab, Lucknow, etc., employs in all other cases the vowels
with the following uniform sounds:--
_a_, as in wom_a_n: _a_, as in l_a_nd: _i_, as in pol_i_ce: _i_, as
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