HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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An important noble and confidant of Aurangzeb
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An official historian of the reign of Shah Jahan
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An important military commander during Akbar’s reign
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A chronicler and poet during the reign of Muhammad Shah
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abdul Hamid Lahori (Urdu: ; died 1654) was a traveller and historian during the period of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who later became a court historian of Shah Jahan (Shah Jahan’s official chronicler). He wrote the book Padshahnama, about the reign of Shah Jahan.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abdul Hamid Lahori later became a court historian of Shah Jahan (Shah Jahan’s official chronicler). He wrote this book about the reign of Shah Jahan. In the book, he has described the works of Shah Jahan till twenty years of his reign.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Padshahnama (’Book of Emperors’) is a chronicle commissioned by the fifth Mughal emperor Shah-Jahan (r. 1628–58). The text is a propagandist celebration of his reign and his dynasty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shah Jahan in his eighth regnal year asked Muhammad Amin Qazvini to write an official history of his reign and he completed his Badshahnama in 1636, which covers the first ten (lunar) years of Shah Jahan’s reign.