Akbar: An Eastern Romance

Limburg Brouwer, P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) · 1873

London: W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place. Publishers to the India Office. The object of the Romance which is now presented to English readers, in a translated form, is to convey a generally accurate idea of the court of Akbar, the greatest and best native ruler that ever held sway over Hindustan. The author, Dr. Van Limburg-Brouwer, was an oriental scholar, who strove, by this means, to impart to others the knowledge he had himself acquired, through the study of contemporary writers, of the thoughts and habits of the great Emperor, and of the manners and civilization of those who surrounded him.…

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