What were the limitations of Ain-E- Akbari?
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The Ain-i Akbari was the culmination of a large historical, administrative project of classification undertaken by Abu’lFazl at the order of Emperor Akbar.
completed in 1598 after having gone through five revisions.
part of a larger project of history writing commissioned by Akbar known as the Akbar Nama, comprised three books. The first two provided a historical narrative. The Ain-i Akbari, the third book, was organized as a compendium of imperial regulations and a gazetteer of the empire.
Gives detailed accounts of the organization of the court, administration and army, the sources of revenue and the physical layout of the provinces of Akbar’s empire and the literary, cultural, religious traditions of the people and quantitative information of the provinces.
The Ainis made up of five books (daftars),
first three books describe the administration.
The first book, called manzil-abadi, concerns the imperial household and its maintenance
The second book, sipah-abadi, covers the military and civil administration and the establishment of servants. This book includes notices and short biographical sketches of imperial officials like mansabdars, learned men, poets and artists.
The third book, mulk-abadi, is the one which deals with the fiscal side of the empire and provides rich quantitative information on revenue rates, administrative and fiscal divisions, total measured area, and assessed revenue ( jama).