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559. We have, on the one hand, Abul Fazal‘s ‗Ain-e-Akbari‘. Colonel H S Jerrett‘s English translation was first published in 1893-96. The second edition corrected and further annotated by Sir Jadunath Sarkar refers to the Ain-e-Akbari as:
―…an encyclopedia of the religion, philosophy and sciences of the Hindus, preceded by the chronology and cosmography of the Muslims, as required by literary convention, for comparison with the Hindu ideas on the same subjects.‖ In his editorial introduction written on 17 May 1894, Jerrett had made a reference to the range and diversity of the subjects covered: