Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Kings and Chronicles

Question:

Arrange the following Mughal chronicles and memoirs in a chronological order.
(A) Muhammad Kazim compiles the Alamgir Nama.
(B) Babur’s memoirs translated into Persian as Babur Nama.
(C) Muhammad Waris begins to chronicle the third decade of Shah Jahan's reign.
(D) Gulbadan Begum begins to write the Humayun Nama.
(E) The first two daftars of the Badshah Nama composed by Lahori.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (B), (D), (C), (E), (A)
(2) (D), (B), (E), (C), (A)
(3) (A), (C), (D), (B), (E)
(4) (B), (A), (D), (E), (C)

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

2

Explanation:

Chronological order of events: (D), (B), (E), (C), (A)

(D) c. 1587: Gulbadan Begum begins to write the Humayun Nama.
(B) 1589: Babur’s memoirs translated into Persian as Babur Nama.
(E) 1639-47: Lahori composes the first two daftars of the Badshah Nama.
(C) c. 1650: Muhammad Waris begins to chronicle the third decade of Shah Jahan’s reign.
(A) 1668: Alamgir Nama, a history of the first ten years of Aurangzeb’s reign compiled by Muhammad Kazim.