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Persian Histories and Other Literature

Persian Histories and Other Literature

Section titled “Persian Histories and Other Literature”

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Babars Memoirs

Section titled “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

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  • 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

Section titled “PYQs”

Persian histories and other literature. Hindi and other religious literature

  1. 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]
  1. What was the contribution of the Mughals to the development of education and literature? [1984, 60m]
  1. Write a short essay on: “Mughal official histories and auto-biographical works.” [1992, 20m]
  1. Write a short essay on: “Babarnama as a source of history.” [2002, 20m]
  1. Write a short Essay on the development of Literature during Mughal Period. [2006, 60m]
  1. Provide a comparative analysis of the development of Arabic and Persian historiography. [2010, 20m]
  1. How does Tuzuk-i-Babri testify that Babar had been a cultures man? [2015, 10m]
  1. Discuss the literature written in Hindi in Mughal India. [2018, 10 Marks]