The History of Akbar Volume 7

Akbarnama or the history of Akbar by Abu’l-Fazl (D 1602) is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. Marking a high point in a long rich tradition of Persian historical writing it served as a model for historians across the Persianate world. The work is at once a biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar (R. 1556–1605) that includes descriptions of political and martial feats and cultural achievements and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India. The seventh volume details the twenty-ninth to thirty-eighth years of Akbar reign including accounts of the marriage of his son and heir Salim (Jahangir); conquests of Swat Orissa Kashmir Sind and the saurashtra peninsula; the pacification of Bengal; and the emperor visits to Kashmir the Punjab and Kabul. The Persian text presented in the NASA script is based on a careful reassessment of the primary sources.