an extensive system of couriers and informants who relayed information to the Padshah. Qandahari has described this extremely efficient system: He [Akbar] is such an expert in espionage that he keeps four thousand* foot-runners, who in Hindi are called Meurah. They are on His Majesty’s service day and night so that news and reports reach regularly everyday from all sides of the world. This class of men run as fast as lions, so that within ten days news comes from Bengal, which is at a distance of seven hundred karohs (kos) from Agra. His Majesty gets all information of good or bad and profit
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Information and courier system
