Explain why Ain-i Akbari remains important even today.

1.	Explain why Ain-i Akbari remains important even today.
Answer» Solution :(i) Itis so, because it provides glimpses into structure and organisation of Mughal empire. It givesus ingormation aobutits productsand people (II)Theauthorof the BOOK Abul Fazlachieved a major breakthrough in traditional medieval chrouniclers who also threwa valuableinformation aboutthe political events of the time . (iii)Information aboutcountry, its people and its products was mentioned only INCIDENTALLY as an embellishmentto the essentially political thrustofthe NARRATIVE (iv)Itcompletely departed FROMT he tradition as it recorded information aboutthe empire and the people of India and thus constituted a venchamark for studying India at the turn of the 17th century . (v)It contains information aboutthepeople . their professions and trades and on imperial establishmentof the empire . (vi)Itenables the historians to reconstructthe social fabric of Indiaat that time .

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