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rupees are of extraordinary weight. The two last are in a splendid 

 state of preservation. They show us that in the beginning of his reign 

 Jahangir used the Kalimah on his coins. I have seen others and besides 

 these I have seen gold coins of his with the Kalimah on them. No 

 Mogul Emperor was so taken up with changes in the matter of coinage 

 as Jahangir. A complete collection of his coins would be exceedingly 

 interesting." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Geography of India in the reign of Ahbar. — By 

 John Beames, B. C. S. (With a Map.) 



No. I. SUBAH AVADH, (OUDH). 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Beames, in this series of papers, proposes to re-construct, as far 

 as possible, the map of the Mughal Empire at the time of the first great 

 settlement of the financial and political administrations effected in A. D. 

 1882 by Raja Todar Mai. The details of this important operation are 

 given in the Ain-i-Akbari, the Persian text of which has been published 

 by the late Professor Blochmann, who did not live long enough to com- 

 plete the work ; and as his valuable notes have been lost, the greater 

 portion of the work has to be done over again. The continuation of this 

 work having been entrusted by the Society to other hands, Mr. Beames 

 refrains from encroaching on that ground, but proposes to extract from 

 the Persian text such details as are necessary for his purpose, confining 

 himself for the present to Geography and reserving, for a larger work, 

 references to Muhammadan historians and other authorities. 



The dominions of Akbar were divided into twelve Provinces or 

 Subahs, viz. : — 



Ilahabad, Ajmir, Bangolah, Lahor, Agrah, Ahmadabad, Dihli, 

 Multan, Avadh, Bihar, Kabul and Malwah. 



To these were subsequently added three more, Birar, Khandesh, 

 Ahmadnagar, making a total of fifteen. 



Abul Fazl gives a chapter to each Subah beginning with Bengal in 

 the extreme east and going westwards, but, for several reasons given in 

 detail in his paper, Mr. Beames thinks it better to begin with Oudh. 

 The materials which he has used are chiefly the reports of the recent 

 Settlements of the several districts, supplemented by much valuable in- 

 formation scattered here and there in the Oudh Gazetteer. 



The Subah of Oudh was divided into 5 Sarkars, viz., 1, Oudh ; 

 2, Gorakpur ; 3, Bahraich ; 4, Khairabad ; 5, Lakhnau. These Sarkars 



