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W.H. Moreland’s From Akbar to Aurangzeb is a study in Indian Economic History of the first half of the seventeenth century. The author examines the changes which took place in the course of the next fifty or sixty years, the period covered by the reigns of the Mogul Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. It studies the most significant stages in the deterioration of Akbar's administrative institutions; and the increasing interest of foreign merchants in territorial question, evidenced by the settlements of the Dutch in Malabar, the English in Bombay, and the French?in?Pondicherry. This period is important from the standpoint of economic institutions and is marked by certain far-reaching changes which ushered in a new era in the commercial relations of India with the traders from the West. The book has 10 chapters and 5 extremely useful appendices. The appendices are: (1) The Dutch and English Companies (2) Early Dutch Exports to Europe (3) Mogul Revenue Statistics (4) Currency, Weights, and?Measures?(5)?List?of?Authorities