Political History of Gurugram

Notes 14
• In any case, this pillar takes the history of
human settlement in this area back to at least
7 th or 9th century AD.
• In the Mughal times, according to 16th -
century chronicle Ain-i-Akbari by Abul-Fazl,
the famous courtier of Emperor Akbar,
Gurgaon was a village within Jharsa pargana