List of Famous Persian Historians of the Mughal Period

A number of ethnic Persian technocrats, bureaucrats, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, poets, artists, theologians and Sufis migrated and settled in different parts of the Indian Subcontinent after coming of Mughals in India. Persian people were among one of the major ethnic groups, who accompanied the ethnic Turko-Mongol ruling elite of the Mughal Empire.

Famous Persian Historians of the Mughal Period

Book	Writer and Historian	Patron
Tarikh-i-Rashidi	Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Beg	Humayun
Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari	Abu'l-Fazl	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Firishtah	Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah	Akbar
Tabaqat-i-Akbari	Nizamuddin Ahmad	Akbar
Muntakhabut-Tawarikh	Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi	Abbas Khan Sarwani	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Salatine Afghana	Ahmed Yadgar	Not-mentioned
Tazkirat-ul-Waqiat	Jauhar Aftabchi	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Sindh	Mir Muhammad Masoom Shah Bakhri	Akbar
Waqiat-i-Mushtaqi	Shiekh Rizq Ullah Mushtaqui	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Humayunshahi	Jauhar Aftabchi	Akbar
Tarikh-i-Akbari	Muhammad Arif Qandhari	Akbar
Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri	Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir	Jahangir
Makhjan-i-Afghana	Ni'mat Allah al-Harawi	Jahangir
Tarikh-i-Dandi	Abdullah	Jahangir
Maasiri-i-Jahangir	Gharat Khan	Jahangir
Shah Jahan Nama	Md Sadiq Khan	Shah Jahan
Padshah Namah	Mohammed Waris	Shah Jahan
Alamgirnamah	Mirza Muhammad Kazim	Shah Jahan
Masir-e-Alamgiri	Mohd. Saqi Mustaid khan	Aurangzeb
Zafar Namah	Guru Gobind Singh Ji	Aurangzeb
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab	Muhammad Hāshim or Hashim 'Ali Khan (Khafi Khan)	Aurangzeb
Futuhat-e-Alamgih	Ishwar Das Nagar	Aurangzeb
Nuskha-e-Dilkusha	Bhimsen Burhanpuri	Aurangzeb
Khulasat-u-Tawarikh	Surjan Rai Khatri	Aurangzeb
Sijarul Mutkhann	Ghulam Hussain	Aurangzeb
Imadus Sadat	Ghulam Naqvi	Aurangzeb

Most of the Persian historian who came to India and wrote their works here under the Indian patronage. There is no such evidence that poets and scholars of Persian language, migrated to India in such large numbers. It is mostly from Babur’s regime or the advent of the Mughal rule that the Persian language in India has acquired its own significance.