Who was the author of ‘Badshah Nama’?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Abdul Hamid Lahori
Abdul Hamid Lahori, a pupil of Abu’l Fazl, is known as the author of the Badshah Nama, the official history of Shah Jahan’s reign.
Note 1: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Kings and Chronicles’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
Note 2: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| – | – | – | 27-05 S1* 02-07 S3 | – |
* A similar question.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “4. The Akbar Nama and the Badshah Nama … A pupil of Abu’l Fazl, Abdul Hamid Lahori is known as the author of the Badshah Nama. Emperor Shah Jahan, hearing of his talents, commissioned him to write a history of his reign modelled on the Akbar Nama. The Badshah Nama is this official history in three volumes (daftars) of ten lunar years each. Lahori wrote the first and second daftars comprising the first two decades of the emperor’s rule (1627-47); these volumes were later revised by Sadullah Khan, Shah Jahan’s wazir. Infirmities of old age prevented Lahori from proceeding with the third decade which was then chronicled by the historian Waris.…” |