Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Kings and Chronicles

Question:

Akbar Nama was translated into English by:

Options:

Sir William Jones

Anthony Monserrate

Henry Beveridge

Father Antonio

Correct Answer:

Henry Beveridge

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Henry Beveridge

Edited versions of the Akbar Nama and Badshah Nama were first published by the Asiatic Society in the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century the Akbar Nama was translated into English by Henry Beveridge after years of hard labour. Only excerpts of the Badshah Nama have been translated into English to date; the text in its entirety still awaits translation.