A HISTORY OF EMPORER AURANGZEB ALAMGIR pdf download

A History of Emporer Aurangzeb Alamgir – Maasir I Alamgiri

A HISTORY OF EMPORER AURANGZEB ALAMGIR

Emperor Akbar (reign 1556-1605 a.d.) set the example of having a detailed history of his reign written by official command.

 The result was the Akbar-Namah or ‘Book of Akbar of Abul Fazl (completed by other hands after that author’s death).

 Then came the emperor Jahangir, who dictated his memoirs, known as the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, and therefore no official Jahan gir-ndmah had to be written about him.

This book, however, combines the literary characteristics of an autobiography with those of an official history, or in other words, it gives the emperor’s reflections and feelings as well as an objective record of the events of his reign.

Indeed, in this reign, the literary type of the Mughal official histories was determined for the future, as was exemplified by the Pddishdhndmah (Shah Jahan), the ‘ Alamgir-Namah (of Aurangzib, completed by the Madsir-i-Alamgiri), the Bahadur Shah-ndmah (Shah Alam I) and later attempts like the Tarikh-i-Ahmad Shdhi and the Tdrikh-i-‘Alamgii Sdn.

In all these works, or Ndrnahs proper, the events are built upon a rigid skeleton of dates chronologically arranged;

there is an accurate but tiresome assemblage of minute names of persons and places in every month’s narrative of occurrences, and the mechanical division of the book into a chapter for each regnal year is followed.

Such a collection of facts, if it is to be correct, requires a basis of written official records, and this basis was supplied by the Iraqi or official reports of occurrences regularly sent from every province to the central Government of Delhi.

By an order issued in the 24th year of his reign (1580), Akbar appointed in each province of his empire a uniform set of officers, one of whom was the Waqai’-Navis or Recorder of Events