Rulers of India: Akbar

RULERS OF INDIA
EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. M.A. (OXFORD): LL.D. (CAMBRIDGE)
London HENRY FROWDE
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS: 1890
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: á , as in l a nd: i , as in pol i ce: í , as in intr i gue: o , as in c o ld: u , as in b u ll: ú , as in s u re.


THE ARGUMENT
I crave the indulgence of the reader whilst I explain as briefly as possible the plan upon which I have written this short life of the great sovereign who firmly established the Mughal dynasty in India. 1
1 For the purposes of this sketch I have referred to the following authorities: Memoirs of Bábar, written by himself, and translated by Leyden and Erskine; Erskine's Bábar and Humáyún; The Ain-í-Akbarí (Blochmann's translation); The History of India, as told by its own Historians, edited from the posthumous papers of Sir H. M. Elliot, K.C.B., by Professor Dowson; Dow's Ferishta; Elphinstone's History of India; Tod's Annals of Rajast'han, and various other works.