Bakhtawar Khan Mohammad or simply Bakhtawar, (
Persian
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: بختاور خان محمد, born 1620 in
Persia
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; died February 19, 1685, in
Delhi
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) was a
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
historian, poet, official and later also personal advisor of the king at the court of the
Mughal
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* Mughal dynasty
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emperor
Aurangzeb
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.
Early life
Like many
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
poets, traders and nobles in the
Early modern period
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, Bakhtawar's family migrated from
Persia
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to the
Mughal Empire
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, where
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
-speaking people in particular were in great demand at the
Mughal court and made up an important part of the nobility.
See also
*
Persians in the Mughal Empire
Literature
* S. S. Alvi, “The Historians of Awrangzeb: A Comparative Study of Three Primary Sources,” ''Essays on Islamic Civilization'', ed. D. P. Little, Leiden, 1976, pp. 57–73.
* Bakhtāwar Khān, ''Mirʾāt al-ʿĀlam: History of Emperor Awrangzeb ʿĀlamgīr'', ed. S. S. Alvi, I-II, Lahore, 1979.
* H. M. Elliot, ''The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians'', ed. J. Dowson, London, 1877, VIII, pp. 150–53.
* Mostaʿed Khan, ''Maʾāṯer-e ʿālamgīrī'', Eng. tr. Jadunath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1947, pp. 59, 61, 142, 155.
* Moḥammad-Afżal Sarḵoš, ''Kalemāt al-šoʿarāʾ'', Lahore, n.d., pp. 25–26. ''EI''
2 I, p. 954.
* Rieu, ''Pers. Man.'' I, pp. 124–27; III, pp. 890–91, 975.
* Storey, I, pp. 132–33, 517, 1012.
References
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1620 births
1685 deaths
17th-century Iranian historians
17th-century Persian-language poets