Who is the creator of the Mughal Text ‘Masir-A-Alamgiri’?
- (a)Saqi Mustaid Khan
- (b)Hatim Khan
- (c)Kazim Shiraji
- (d)Khafi Khan
Correct — A, Saqi Mustaid Khan. The Maasir-i-Alamgiri is a chronicle of the reign of Aurangzeb ('Alamgir'), compiled by Saqi Mustaid Khan and completed in 1710, a few years after the emperor's death. It draws on court records and is modelled on the earlier official history of the reign.
- (b)Hatim Khan — Hatim Khan is not the author of the Maasir-i-Alamgiri.
- (c)Kazim Shiraji — Muhammad Kazim wrote the Alamgirnama, the official history of the first ten years of Aurangzeb's reign — a different work.
- (d)Khafi Khan — Khafi Khan wrote the Muntakhab-al-Lubab, a separate general history of the Mughals into the early 18th century.
Aurangzeb halted official court history-writing partway through his reign. So the record splits: the Alamgirnama (Muhammad Kazim) covers only years 1-10, while the Maasir-i-Alamgiri (Saqi Mustaid Khan), compiled after 1707 from records, covers the whole reign.
Author-to-chronicle matching is a favourite. Fix the pairs: Alamgirnama = Muhammad Kazim; Maasir-i-Alamgiri = Saqi Mustaid Khan; Muntakhab-al-Lubab = Khafi Khan.
- Maasir-i-Alamgiri = history of Aurangzeb's reign by Saqi Mustaid Khan, completed 1710.
- Alamgirnama (Muhammad Kazim) = official history of Aurangzeb's first ten years.
- Muntakhab-al-Lubab = Khafi Khan's history of the later Mughals.
- Aurangzeb ('Alamgir') reigned 1658-1707.
- Swapping Maasir-i-Alamgiri (Saqi Mustaid Khan) with Alamgirnama (Muhammad Kazim)
- Attributing it to Khafi Khan
'Who wrote / who is the author of' a named Persian chronicle — memorise the author-text pairs.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Alamgirnama, the official history of the first ten years of Aurangzeb's reign, was written by:
- (a)Muhammad Kazim
- (b)Saqi Mustaid Khan
- (c)Abul Fazl
- (d)Khafi Khan
Answer(a) Muhammad Kazim (Kazim Shiraji).
- practice — not a real PYQ
Khafi Khan is known as the author of which Mughal-era history?
- (a)Muntakhab-al-Lubab
- (b)Akbarnama
- (c)Padshahnama
- (d)Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri
Answer(a) Muntakhab-al-Lubab.