Khwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad Bakshi (also spelled as Nizam ad-Din Ahmad and Nizam al-Din Ahmad) (born 1551, died 1621/1030 AH) was a
Muslim historian of late medieval
India
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. He was son of Muhammad Muqim-i-Harawi. He was
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...
's ''Mir Bakhshi''. His work, the ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari'', is a comprehensive work on general history covering the time from the
Ghaznavids
The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, Khorasan, much of Transoxiana and the northwes ...
(986-7) up to the 38th year of Akbar's reign (1593-4/1002 AH).
[Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2006). ''The Delhi Sultanate'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, p.757][Shyam, Radhey (1981), The Kingdom of Khandesh, Delhi:Idarah-i-Adabiyat-i-Delli, p.x] The author quoted twenty-nine authorities in his work, some of which are entirely lost to us now.
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See also
* Muntakhab al-Tawarikh
Notes
References
* Brajendranath De
Brajendranath Dey (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.
Early life and education
De studied at Hare School, Calcutta, and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow. ...
; Baini Prashad (eds.) ''The Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī of K̲h̲wājah Nizāmuddīn Ahmad : a history of India from the early Musalman invasions to the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Akbar'' by Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Muqīm; Calcutta : Asiatic Society, 1927, 1973 (3 vols.)
* Nizamuddin Ahmad, Khwajah.'' The ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī''. Edited by Brajendranath De and M. Hidayat Hosein. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1931–35. Translated by B. De. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1927–39.
External links
''Tabakāt Akbarī''
a translation from Volume V of The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians
''The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians'' is a book comprising translations of medieval Persian chronicles based on the work of Henry Miers Elliot. It was originally published as a set of eight volumes between 1867-1877 in London. T ...
, 1867
1621 deaths
16th-century Indian historians
17th-century Indian historians
Historians from the Mughal Empire
1551 births
Akbar
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