70% AKBAR DARBARI AND SENAPATI WERE FOREIGNER MUSLIM ONY 15 PERCENT HINDU
AKBAR WAZIR AND SENAPATI WERE MOSTLY FOREIGNER MUSLIM ONLY 15 PERCENT WERE HINDU AND HISTORY CHANDRA BHAN BRAHMAN RAJPUT NEVER MOUNT GUARD IN MUGHAL FORTRESS LEGACY OF MUSLIM RULE IN INDIA BY K S Lal Page 136 137 The administration of the Sultanate and Mughal Empire was bureaucratic throughout. Over long periods this administrative system was dominated by immigrants from abroad, mainly West Asia and North Africa and this gave it much of the character of foreign and Islamic rule. Commenting on the list of mansabdars in the Ain-i-Akbari, Moreland says that while about 70 percent of the nobles were foreigners belonging to families which had either come to India with Humayun or had arrived at the court after the accession of Akbar, of the remaining 30 percent of the appointments which were held by Indians, rather more than half were Moslems and rather less than half Hindus.176 This high proportion of Muslim mansabdars belonging to familie...