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11.1 Persian Histories and Other Literature
Babars Memoirs
- Babar scholar of Persian and Turki developed new style of verse in Persian called Rubaiyan
- Reveal his character as imaginative man,
- Tuzuk I Baburi
- Humayun retained his literary taste till very end Din Panah and Sher Mandal in Delhi were his personal libraries
- Akbar - popularise study of Persian language, literature
- Imperial library in Agra
- Art of medieval Indian historiography reached it perfection during his reign
- A reign was renaissance in fields of Persian and Hindi literature
- Ibn Har Karan translated Ramayana into persian
- Munshi Banvali Das translated Prabodh Chandrodaya into Persian
- Abdur Rashid rendered Bijaganit from Sans to Persian
- Abdul Hamid Lahori, Khafi Khan during SJ reign
PYQs
Persian histories and other literature. Hindi and other religious literature
- Identify the traces of Persian and Rajput traditions and show how they were synthesized in the field of painting, architecture and literature at the Mughal court. [1981, 60m]
- Provincial Architecture and Painting
- Influence of Rajput style on Mughal painting and Art
- Influence of Rajput arch on Mughal Arch
- What was the contribution of the Mughals to the development of education and literature? [1984, 60m]
- Hindi and Other Religious Literature
- Education
- Write a short essay on: "Mughal official histories and auto-biographical works." [1992, 20m]
- Persian Histories and Other Literature
- And from Survey of Sources
- Write a short essay on: "Babarnama as a source of history." [2002, 20m]
- Babars Memoirs
- Write a short Essay on the development of Literature during Mughal Period. [2006, 60m]
- Hindi and Other Religious Literature
- Provide a comparative analysis of the development of Arabic and Persian historiography. [2010, 20m]
- Persian Histories and Other Literature
- How does Tuzuk-i-Babri testify that Babar had been a cultures man? [2015, 10m]
- Tuzuk I Baburi
- Discuss the literature written in Hindi in Mughal India. [2018, 10 Marks]
- Literary renaissance in Hindi Literature under A