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It was Akbar who consciously set out to make Persian the leading language of the Mughal court. Cultural and intellectual contacts with Iran, as well as a regular stream of Iranian and Central Asian migrants seeking positions at the Mughal court, might have motivated the emperor to adopt the language. Persian was elevated to a language of empire, conferring power and prestige on those who had a command of it. It was spoken by the king, the royal household and the elite at court. Further, it became the language of administration at all levels so that accountants, clerks and other functionaries also learnt it. Even when Persian was not directly used, its vocabulary and idiom heavily influenced the language of official records in Rajasthani and Marathi and even Tamil. Since the people using Persian in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came from many different regions of the subcontinent and spoke other Indian languages, Persian too became Indianised by absorbing local idioms. A new language, Urdu, sprang from the interaction of Persian with Hindavi.

Which of the following statements is correct concerning the creation of manuscripts in the Mughal Empire?

Statement A- Some of the people involved in the actual production of the manuscript also got recognition in the form of titles and awards.

Statement B- Of these, calligraphers held a high social standing while others, such as painters have remained anonymous artisans.

Only statement A is correct.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Only statement A is correct.

Statement A- Some of the people involved in the actual production of the manuscript also got recognition in the form of titles and awards.

Statement B- Of these, calligraphers held a high social standing while others, such as painters have remained anonymous artisans.

Correction in Statement B: Of these, calligraphers and painters, BOTH held a high social standing while others, such as paper makers or bookbinders, have remained anonymous artisans

The creation of a manuscript involved a number of people performing a variety of tasks.  Papermakers were needed to prepare the folios of the manuscript, scribes or calligraphers to copy the text, gilders to illuminate the pages, painters to illustrate scenes from the text, and bookbinders to gather the individual folios and set them within ornamental covers. The finished manuscript was seen as a precious object, a work of intellectual wealth and beauty. It exemplified the power of its patron, the Mughal emperor, to bring such beauty into being. At the same time, some of the people involved in the actual production of the manuscript also got recognition in the form of titles and awards. Of these, calligraphers and painters held a high social standing while others, such as paper makers or bookbinders, have remained anonymous artisans.