sentences:  He approached the great Ghalib to write a "taqriz" (in the convention of the times, a laudatory foreword) for it.Ghalib obliged, but what he did produce was a short Persian poem castigating the Ai'n-e Akbari, and by implication, the imperial, sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which it was a product.The least that could be said against it was that the book had little value even as an antique document.