The aim of the book India at the Death of Akbar: An Economic Study is to present a sketch of the economic life of India at the opening of?the?seventeenth?century?or?at?the?death?of?Akbar.
Here the author tells us about the country, the people, the administration and its effect on trade and industry, the consuming classes, agricultural production, non-agricultural production, commerce, standard of life of the upper, middle and lower classes, the wealth of?India?and?its?distribution.
He has very closely looked into the Ain-i-Akbari to extract valuable statistics?for?his?construction?of?Akbar’s?revenue?system.
Chapter I The Country and People 1
Chapter II The Administration 29
Chapter III The Consuming Class 59
Chapter IV The Agricultural Production 90
Chapter V Non- Agricultural Production 132
Chapter VI Commerce 184
Chapter VII The Standard of Life 237
Chapter VIII The Wealth of India 263
Appendices 281
W.H. Moreland spent twenty-five years in North-Western Provinces. For twelve years he was Director, Land Records and Agriculture. He wrote extensively on the economic history of Mughal India. Among others his other books are: The Agrarian System of Moslem India; From Akbar to Aurangzeb; and Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth?Century.