ABSTRACT
The travellers of economic conditions period chiefly went along certain routes or followed the court of some Indian prince. Their observations were casual, and, in Economics, casual observations are most likely to lead to wrong conclusions. The general conclusions drawn by Mr. Moreland as to the standard of life in India in the sixteenth century are far more cautious than those of most authors. He thinks that there has been a rising of the general plane of living, though not to a very large extent. He considers that the total produce of the land was very much less than it is, though a good deal of the area actually under cultivation yielded more than at present. His opinion is that in the time of Akbar almost everything pointed to an economic decline in the near future, though some facts pointed to an ultimate brighter economic future.
