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Kings And Chronicles : The Mughal Courts

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Name the auther of “Badshah Nama”. Describe its content.

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(i) Name of author : The Name of author of Badshah Nama is Abdul Hamid Lahori.

(ii) Content of Badshah Nama:Abdul Hamid Lahori was a pupil of Abul Fazl Emperor Shah Jahan, heating of his talents, commissioned him to write a history of his reign modelled on the Akbnarnama. The Badshah Nama is the official history in three volumes (daftars) often lunar years each. Lahori wrote the first and second daftars comprising the first two decades of the emperor’s rule (1627-47), these volumes were later revised by Sadullah Khan, Shah Jahan’s wazir . Infirmities of old age prevented Lahori from proceeding with the third decade which was then chronicled by the historian Waris.

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