BOOK REVIEW < not ignoring the limited scope of public administration, to which he himself has drawn attention. In 1970. a reprint of the book, in paperback edition, was brought out by the same press. In 1985? came out the author's magnum opus, The Apparatus of Empire, Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility, (1574-1608), OUP, 1985 (reviewed by the present reviewer in The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XI, 1984-85, pp. 236-39). The book presents tabulated lists of Mughal mansabdars, arranged reign-wise, which note the following particulars; (i) name and title of the mansabdar and the ethnic group to which he belonged, (ii) mansab held at the time of the first available reference, (iii) increase/decrease of the mansab subsequently, (iv) appointments held, with designations, and (v) sources providing the information. The entries are numbered serially for each reign, with cross-references to the previous and subsequentries, if any. The book is planned in two volumes, the first one covering the reigns of Akbar (from 1574), Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The second volume, expected to be published soon, will cover the reign of Aurangzeb. The vast information gathered together, by dedicated, diligent, work spread over several years, is based mainly on the official and non-official histories, the Tuzuk-i Jahangiri, some of the European travellers^ accounts and supplemented with the the voluminous Hyderabad collections of records. Still, it is possible to add up bits and pieces from other, unexpected, sources. One such example is the epigraphic source and, for the later years of Aurangzeb's reign, and subsequently, the entries in the Akhbarat-i Darbar-i Mu'allah (herein after cited as Akhbarat). To illustrate one such a case, the reviewer may refer to the entries regarding a mansabdar, Ikhlas Khan, of the reign of the reign of Shah Jahan. There are six entries about him in The Apparatus (pp. 102, 107, 112, 120, 146 and 180) covering the period A.H. 1037 to 1050 (1627-28 to 1640-41). He is shown as holding the posts of Diwan of Burhanpur and Qala'dar of Ajmer, and, later, of Rohtas, and that the died ii 1640-41. Throughout this period, he is shown as holding the rank of 2,000/1,000. However, from an epigraph, dated A. H. 1047 (1637-38), fixed above the entrance of a rectangular, walled, enclosure in village Akbarpur, at the foot of the Rohtas Hill, and the famous fort on it, we find that in 1627-28, the Qala'dari of Rohtas Fort as well as the Faujdari of some 11 parganas in the adjacent areas, was held by Ikhlas Khan with a mansab of 3,000/x. The references in The Apparatus, based on Lahori's Badshah Namah, Vols. 1 and 11, show that his mansab remained unchanged over the period. The contemporary and incontrovertible evidence of the epigraph provides the addtional information that his mansab was increased to 3,000/x in 1637-38 (see my Corpus of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bihar,