India at the Death of Akbar

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.