Abul Fazl Mamuri was a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

of the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...

during

Aurangzeb Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, also called Aurangzeb the Conqueror, was the sixth Mughal emperors, Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707, becomi ...

's reign and author of ''Tarkikh-i-Aurengzeb,'' ''Tarikh-i-Abul Fazl Mamuri'' and co-author of

Shahjahannama The ''Shahjahannama'' (; ) is a genre of works written about the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. ''Padshahnama'' is a term for lavishly illuminated versions. A significant work in this genre was written by the historian Inayat Khan (historian), Inay ...

.Najaf Haider,
Prices and Wages in India (1200-1800): Source Material, Historiography and New Directions
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