Vol. 3, Issue 12, Part A (2017)

Abstract
The Persian sources give scant information about the economic conditions during the period, there are numerous references in the contemporary literature in Sanskrit and in the regional Indian languages to enable us to reconstruct the state of agriculture and other associated industries in different parts of the country under Hindu rule, prior to the Turkish conquest and during the Turko-Afghan regime. In the Ain-i-Akbari, however, we have a reliable source from which we get authentic and detailed information about agriculture. This work contains measured area statistics in detail, province wise village and area statistics have come down to us since Aurangzeb's reign. This statistical area within the Mughal empire was about half that of 1900-20 in parts of Bengal, Bihar, Eastern U.P., Berar and the Indus regions, and from two-thirds to fourt-fifths in Western U.P., Gujarat, Malwa and Khandesh.