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self: nine months after he was born in the character of Akber; 

 who, us soon as he ascended the throne, went Lo Allahabad, and 

 easily found the spot where the brass plate was buried. Thus the 

 Hindoos claim Mahomed and Akber as their own; exactly like 

 the Persians of old, who insisted that Alexander the Great was the 

 son of one of their kings; so that, after all, they were forced to sub- 

 mit to their countrymen only. 



Akber was succeeded by Selim his son, who then took the 

 name of Jehangire; this emperor appointed his son sultan Currain 

 to be viceroy of Guzerat, and conferred on him the title of Shah- 

 Jehan, " kins, of the world," which he retained after he became 

 emperor, in 1628. It was during the reign of Jehangire, in 1615, 

 that Sir Thomas Roe was sent on an embassy lo the Mogul court, 

 by James the First, king of England. About that time the soubah 

 of Guzerat was in a very flourishing condition; if we are to be- 

 lieve the Mogul writers, Ahmedabad then contained near three 

 millions of inhabitants; I should imagine one third of the number 

 to be nearer the truth. When I was there the}' were reduced to 

 three hundred thousand, of whom two parts were Mahomedans, 

 and the rest Hindoos. 



During the reign of Shah Jehan, his sons, Morad and Auruno-. 

 zebe, successively enjoyed the soubahship of Guzerat, and kept 

 a splendid court at Ahmedabad, which they greatly improved, 

 and there fostered all the arts of peace. The Mogul emperors 

 from Akber to Aurungzebe, who died in 1707, although fond of 

 foreign conquests, and of humbling other princes, in their own 

 dominions encouraged agriculture and commerce, patronized the 

 arts and sciences, and distributed impartial justice, to the best of 



