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RULERS OF INDIA AKBAR AND THE RISE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE by COLONEL G. B. MALLESON Originally published in 1899. Contents include: CHAP. PACKS I. THE ARGUMENT ...... 5-11 II. THE FAMILY AND EARLY DAYS os 1 BAOBAB . . 12-16 III. BA BAR CONQUERS KABUL 17-25 IV. BABARS INVASIONS OF INDIA ... 26-34 Y. THE POSITION OP BABAR IN HINDUSTAN . . 35-49 VI. HUM YUN AND THE EARLY DAYS oj AKBAR . 50-59 VII. HUMAYUN INVADES INDIA. HlS DEATH . 60-64 VIII. AKBARS FIGHT TOR HIS FATHERS THRONE . 65-71 IX. GENERAL CONDITION OF INDIA IN THE MIDDLE OP THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . . . . 72-80 X. THE TUTELAGE UNDER BATR M KHAN. . . 81-90 XI. CHRONICLE or THE KEIGN 91-145 XIL 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 vory well-known places, such as Punjab, Lucknow, etc., employs in all other cases the vowels with the following uniform sounds a, as in woman a, as in land i, as in police o, as in cold u, as in bull u, as in sure o, as in gray. THE EMPEROR AKBAR CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT I 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 The original conception of such an empire was not Akbars own. His grandfather, Babar, had conquered a great portion of India, but during the five years which elapsed between the conquest and his death, Babar enjoyed but few opportunities of donning the robe of the administrator. By the rivals whom he had over thrown and by the children of the soil, Babar was alike regarded as a conqueror, and as nothing more. A man of remarkable ability, who had spent all his life in arms, he was really an adventurer, though a brilliant adventurer, who, soaring above his contemporaries in genius, taught in the rough school of advers
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