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Download Solution PDFIn which language were the Mughal court chronicles written?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Persian.
Key Points
- The Mughal court chronicles were written in Persian.
- Mughal chronicles such as the Akbar Nama were written in Persian, while others, like Babur's memoirs, were translated from Turkish into the Persian Babur Nama.
- Urdu came from the amalgamation of Persian with Hindavi.
- Chronicles commissioned by the Mughal emperors are an important source for studying the empire and its court.
- The authors of Mughal chronicles were mostly courtiers.
- The Mughals were Chaghtai Turks by origin.
- Turkish was their mother tongue hence the first ruler Babur wrote poetry and his memoirs in this language.
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