Identify the most famous court-historian during Akbar’s reign:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Abu’l Fazl
Abu’l Fazl was Akbar’s court historian; he wrote the Ain-i Akbari, one of the most important chronicles of the Mughal court.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.1 Looking for sources … Our major source for the agrarian history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are chronicles and documents from the Mughal court (see also Chapter 9). One of the most important chronicles was the Ain-i Akbari (in short the Ain, see also Section 8) authored by Akbar’s court historian Abu’l Fazl. This text meticulously recorded the arrangements made by the state to ensure cultivation, to enable the collection of revenue by the agencies of the state and to regulate the relationship between the state and rural magnates, the zamindars.…” |