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Baburnama. The Bāburnāma (Chagatay: وياقع, romanized: Vayaqıʿ, lit. 'The Events'; [1] Persian: بابرنامه, romanized: Bāburnāma, lit. 'History of Babur') is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai ...
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
Ain-i-Akbari. The Ain-i-Akbari (Persian: آئینِ اکبری), or the " Administration of Akbar ", is a 16th-century detailed document regarding the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl, in the Persian language. [1] It forms Volume III and the final part of the much larger ...
The Razmnāma (Book of War) (رزم نامہ) is a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar. In 1574, Akbar started a Maktab Khana or "House of Translation" in his new capital at Fatehpur Sikri. He assigned a group to translate the Sanskrit books Rajatarangini, Ramayana and Mahabharata into ...
Gulbadan Begum (c. 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. [1]She is best known as the author of Humayun-Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Emperor Humayun, which she wrote on the request of her nephew, Emperor Akbar. [2]
Mughal Empire (India) The Akbarnama (Persian: اکبرنامه; lit. 'The Book of Akbar '), is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor (r. 1556–1605), commissioned by Akbar himself and written by his court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl. It was written in Persian, which was the literary language of the ...
In early 18th century, as the Mughal empire started collapsing, the nawab became effectively independent of the Mughal rule. [citation needed] In the 17th century, the English East India Company was granted the town of Calcutta by the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja. During the following century, the company obtained sole trading rights for the ...
Influenced by. Usman Bengali [2] Literary works. Tarikh-i-Bada'uni also known as Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh. Abdul Qadir Badayuni (1540–1615) [3] was an Indian writer, historian, and translator. He lived in the Mughal Empire. [1] He translated into Persian the Hindu works, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata (Razmnama).