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of the contemporary historians of Akbar's reign, there were around two to three hundred rajas or rais and zamindars who ruled their territory from strong forts under the emperor's suzerainty. Each of these rajas and zamindars commanded an army of their own, generally consisting of their clansmen, and the total numbers of their troops, as Abul Fazl tells us, stood at forty-four lakhs, comprising 384,558 cavalry, 4,277,057 infantry, 1,863 elephants, 4,260 guns, and 4,500 boats.During

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