An Introduction of Central Administration under Akbar and Mughal's Military System

The first two mughal kings Babar and Humayun were so much engrossed in their political struggle that they could hardly get any time to effect improvement in the administration. It was the genius of Akbar the great who laid the foundation of the mughal system of administration which continued under his successors without much modification. According to Edvard and Garet "the reasons which helped Akbar to established administrative machinery which differed widely from Sultan of Delhi were two fold. First the example of Shershah who in his own territory in Bihar and during his stormy reign of five years at Delhi display a remarkable aptitude for civil government and secondly by the fact that at the commencement of the sixteenth century the muslim population of India had sufficiently increased by the triple method of immigration, conversion, and birth, to admit of the employment in the civil offices of the state of far larger numbers than had been possible during the earlier days of the sultanate". At this crucial juncture it is pertinent to mention here that the central administrative system of Akbar had met with severe criticism at the hand of certain scholars. It is alleged that the mughal administration was essentially foreign in character and gave preference to the Persians. However, it is difficult to accept his allegation.