No merchant was allowed to “carry any quantity of silver” out of the country. The important feature of the trade of India from the reign of Akbar was the commercial activity of t... Read more
Silk-weaving, limited in scope as compared with cotton manufacture, was also an important industry of a section of the people. Abul Fazl writes that it received a considerable impetus in the... Read more
Prosperous cities Prosperity and plenty prevailed in the chief cities of India in the age of the great Mughuls. Writing in A.D. 1585, Fitch observed: ” Agra and Fatehpore are two very... Read more
Below the nobles, there was “a small and frugal” middle class, not given to “ostentatious expenditure” but living on a standard suited to their respective offices and... Read more
