Ain-i-Akbari : in Persian by Abu-l-Fazl (1551-1602), Akbar’s friend, private secretary & adviser, is a survey of the achievements of Akbar’s economic & administrative system. Fazl also wrote Akbarnāmāh – eulogising the Akbar’s Empire.

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Early Cultural Writings > The Revival of Industry in India

... of the soil is a very real danger. Do you know that the average product per acre has in some parts of the country diminished by 50 per cent. since the middle of the seventeenth century, when the Ain-i-Akbari was compiled? Is it any wonder that the peasant grows poorer, or that his resources diminish? Our remedies must fall under two heads: (1) the improvement of methods, implements and general ... gradually trained in efficiency. Now I should like first to call attention to the last of these, Page 710 because I think that here we have the solution of a difficulty which has been met with in the case of some industries which have recently been started. I have heard complaints that the quality of the goods turned out was not satisfactory, and from what I heard, it seemed to me that perhaps... the matter, a satisfactory solution of the whole question must depend upon the sympathy and generosity of the Government. I believe that Government could not give a greater boon than such an education, and I think I am voicing the feelings of the educated classes at large, when I say that we are confident that we have not long to wait to see our rulers grapple with this problem, with their usual energy ...