In this above list, a few grandees are mentioned whom Abulfazl classes among the commanders of 400. Nizám, however, adds the following note to his own list—“Let it be known that the title of Amír is given to all such as hold Mançabs from 500 upwards. None of those whom I have enumerated holds a less rank.”

The Historian Badáoní has not given a list of Amírs, but has compiled instead a very valuable list of the poets, doctors, learned men, and saints of Akbar's reign, together with biographical notices, which make up the third volume of the edition printed by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. With his usual animus he says (III. 1,)—“I shall not give the names of the Amírs, as Nizám has given them in the end of his work, and besides, most of them have died without having obtained the pardon of God.

I have seen none that is faithful in this generation;
If thou knowest one, give him my blessing.”

Of the Mançabdárs whose names Abulfazl has not given, because the A´ín list refers to the period prior to the 40th year of Akbar's reign, the most famous are Mahábat Khán, Khán Jahán Lodí (p. 503), and 'Abdullah Khán Fírúz-jang.

We have no complete list of the grandees of Jahángír's reign; but the Dutch traveller De Laët, in his work on India (p. 151), has a valuable note on the numerical strength of Jahángír's Mançabdárs, which may be compared with the lists in the A´ín and the Pádisháhnámah (II., 717). Leaving out the princes, whose mançabs were above 5000, we have—

Commanders of Under Akbar. (A´ín) Under Jahángír. (De Laët) Under Sháhjahán (Pádisháhnámah)
5000 30 8 20
4500 2 9 0
4000 9 25 20
3500 2 30 0
3000 17 36 44
2500 8 42 11
2000 27 45 51
1500 7 51 52
1250 1 0 0
1000 31 55 97
900 38 0 23
800 2 0 40
700 25 58 61
600 4 0 30
500 46 80 114
  ——— ——— ———
Total, 249 439 563
  ——— ——— ———
400 18 73  
350 19 58  
300 33 72 not specified.
250 12 85  
200 81 150  
  ——— ——  
Total, 163 438  
  ——— ——  
150 53 242  
120 1 0  
100 250 300  
80 91 245 not specified.
60 204 397  
50 16 0  
40 260 298  
30 39 240  
20 250 232  
10 224 110  
  ——— ———  
Total, 1388 2064  
  ——— ———  

The number of Ahadís under Jahángír, De Laët fixes as follows—

Chaháraspahs, 741  
Sihaspahs, 1322  
Duaspahs, 1428  
Yakaspahs, 950  
  ———  
  4441 Ahadís.

Under Sháhjahán, 17 Grandees were promoted, up to the 20th year of his reign, to mançabs above 5000. There is no Hindú among them.

De Laët has not mentioned how many of the Amírs were Hindús. But we may compare the lists of the A´ín and the Pádisháhnámah.

We find under Akbar—

among 252 mançabdárs from 5000 to 500 32 Hindús
” 163 ” from 400 to 200 25 Do.

Under Sháhjahán (20th year of his reign), we have—

among 12 mançabdárs above 5000 no Hindús.
” 580 ” from 5000 to 500 110 Do.

The names of commanders below 500 are not given in the Pádisháh­námah. Regarding other facts connected with the relative position of Hindús and Muhammadans at the Mughul court, I would refer the reader to my ‘Chapter from Muhammadan History,’ Calcutta Review, April, 1871.