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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
AMEN CORNER, E.C.

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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