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Q102 (IAS/2006) History & Culture › Medieval India › Mughal cultural history Answer Verified

In Indian history, who was Abdul Hamid Lahori?

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Abdul Hamid Lahori was a 17th-century court historian who composed the official chronicle of Shah Jahan’s reign, the Padshahnama (often referred to as a Badshahnama). Sources state that his work emulated the Akbarnama tradition and that he produced a biography of Shah Jahan covering the early part of the emperor’s reign alongside later continuations by other historians [1]. Contemporary accounts and reference works identify him explicitly as Shah Jahan’s court historian and credit him with composing the official Padshahnama, detailing the first two decades of the emperor’s rule in two volumes [3]. Thus he served as the official historian (chronicler) of Shah Jahan rather than a military commander, noble confidant of Aurangzeb, or a poet under Muhammad Shah.

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  1. [1] History , class XI (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 14: The Mughal Empire > Literature > p. 219
  2. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_Lahori
  3. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padshahnama
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