Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Ain-i-Akbari is a detailed administrative record of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written in Persian by court historian Abu'l Fazl between 1589 and 1596. It forms Volume III and the final part of the larger Akbarnama, or "Account of Akbar".
The Ain-i-Akbari is divided into five books. They cover the imperial household, military and civil services, judicial and executive administration, Hindu philosophy and social customs, and finally moral sayings and observations attributed to Emperor Akbar.
The Ain-i-Akbari describes the land revenue system known as Raja Todar Mal's Bandobast, organized by Akbar together with his finance minister Raja Todar Mal. The third book also details the administration and tribal divisions of each of the 15 provinces, called Subhas, that made up Akbar's empire.
The Ain-i-Akbari was translated into English in three volumes published by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta in their Bibliotheca Indica series. Heinrich Blochmann translated Books I and II in 1873, and Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett translated Books III through V in 1891 and 1896.
In 1855, after Sir Syed Ahmad Khan completed his illustrated edition of the Ain-i-Akbari, he presented it to the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and asked for a laudatory foreword called a taqriz. Ghalib wrote a short Persian poem that instead castigated the Ain-i-Akbari and praised the "sahibs of England", rebuking Syed Ahmad Khan for spending his talent on dead things.
Ain 25 of the second book records Akbar's instructions for schoolboys: they were to spend two days learning the shapes and names of letters, then practice joined letters for a week, then memorize prose, poetry, and moral sentences. The regulation specified that the teacher should assist the student only a little so the student learned independently.