SOME ASPECTS OF MUSLIM ADMINISTRATION

This present book is an attempt to trace the vicissitudes of two important institutions - the Sultanat, or sovereignty, and the Vizarat. It begins with the Ghaznavides and comes down to the end of the reign of Akbar. The reason for selecting Akbar as the other limit of the inquiry is that in him were combined the old and the new. He stands almost in the central place of the Muslim history of India and looks both backwards and forwards. It was in the time of Akbar that some of the old movements and institutions reached their culmination or were transformed into something new. In this book entire range of available authority has been searched, every endeavour has been made to make the best of them. This will throw a light of Muslim period of Indian History by intensive study of the material as we discussed sovereignty and the Vizarat in some details to show the possibilities of the kind of research. It is hoped that this study will locate properly the place of the early Sultans and later Emperors in the history of India. The work is designed to fix the historical place of rulers like Sher Shah or Akbar. As Akbar received high praise for his originality and constructive abilities a reaction gradually came in and some writers laboured to prove that most of the credit that has gone to Akbar should have been given to Sher Shah in the field of administrative reforms. By throwing fresh light on old questions, by submitting the historical material to an intensive and scientific examination, by the combined application of the telescopic and microscopic methods of study and research in the original sources of information, a new synthesis of the Muslim history of India, more dependable and probably useful, is possible. Synthesis without critical analysis has no root and analysis without synthesis bears no fruits. This book will be honest contribution towards those objects and illustrate and application.

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