Indian art and culture / Literature, languages and sources
Persian and Arabic chronicles, memoirs and translations
Concepts to cover
- Minhaj-us-Siraj (Tabaqat-i-Nasiri), Ziauddin Barani (Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, Fatawa-i-Jahandari), Isami (Futuh-us-Salatin), Afif, Yahya Sirhindi
- Amir Khusrau: Khazain-ul-Futuh, Tughlaqnama, Nuh Sipihr, Hindavi verse, 'parrot of India', Nizamuddin Auliya's disciple
- Al-Biruni's Kitab-ul-Hind (Arabic, eleventh century) and Ibn Battuta's Rihla (Arabic, fourteenth century) as outsider accounts
- Baburnama (Turki), Humayunnama (Gulbadan Begum), Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari (Abul Fazl), Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh (Badauni), Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, Padshahnama (Lahori), Alamgirnama
- Translations under Akbar (Razmnama, Ramayana, Yogavasistha by Nizamuddin Panipati, Lilavati) and Dara Shikoh (Sirr-i-Akbar Upanishads, Majma-ul-Bahrain)
Where to study
History of Medieval India · Satish Chandra
- ch. 11 and 17
- ch. 11
- ch. 17
Themes in Indian History Part II, Class XII (prelims and contents)
- Theme 5
Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 1 Introduction: Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years
- ch. 1 Introduction: Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years, pp. 1-15 (printed 1-15)
- ch. 1 Introduction: Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years, Historians and their Sources (Persian chronicles, Minhaj-i Siraj, Ziyauddin Barani), pp. 3-7 (printed 3-7)
Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 4 The Mughals (16th to 17th Century)
- ch. 4 The Mughals (16th to 17th Century), pp. 1-10 (printed 39-48)
- ch. 4 The Mughals (16th to 17th Century), Akbar Nama and Ain-i Akbari, p. 6 (printed 44)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History, Volume I
- Lesson 10 Advent of Arabs and Turks, Literature (Persian historiography: Minhaj, Barani, Afif), pp. 182-184 (printed 178-180)
- Lesson 10 Advent of Arabs and Turks, Music and Dance; Literature (Amir Khusrau), pp. 183-184 (printed 179-180)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Other aspects of Life (Dara Shukoh's Persian Upanishads), p. 42 (printed 38)
Themes in Indian History Part II, Class XII, Theme 6 Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts
- Theme 6 Bhakti-Sufi Traditions, 7. The Chishtis in the Subcontinent: Amir Khusrau and the qaul, pp. 18-19 (printed 157-158)
Themes in Indian History Part II, Class XII, Theme 5 Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society
- Theme 5 Through the Eyes of Travellers, 1. Al-Biruni and the Kitab-ul-Hind; 2. Ibn Battuta's Rihla, pp. 2-7 (printed 116-121)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume II (lessons 12 to 19), full text
- Lesson 14 The Mughal Empire, Literature (Akbar Nama, Ain-i-Akbari, Padshah Nama, Alamgir Nama, Babur's autobiography), p. 55 (printed 51)
- Lesson 14 The Mughal Empire, Akbar's Religious Policy; Literature (Persian translations of Sanskrit works; Dara Shukoh), p. 42 (printed 38)
- Lesson 14 The Mughal Empire, Literature (translations of Sanskrit works), pp. 55-56 (printed 51-52)
Themes in Indian History Part II, Class XII, Theme 8 Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire
- Theme 8 Peasants, Zamindars and the State, 8. The Ain-i Akbari of Abu'l Fazl Allami, pp. 22-25 (printed 217-220)