Which of the following options is true about the court historians of the Mughals?

All of the above

The correct answer is Option 4 - All of the above

Option 1- The Mughal kings commissioned court historians to write accounts.
Option 2- They also collected vast amounts of information from the regions of the subcontinent to help the rulers govern their domain.
Option 3- The texts written by these historians were intended as conveyors of meanings that the Mughal rulers sought to impose on their domain.
Option 4- All of the above

The rulers of the Mughal Empire saw themselves as appointed by Divine Will to rule over a large and heterogeneous populace. Although this grand vision was often circumscribed by actual political circumstances, it remained important. One way of transmitting this vision was through the writing of dynastic histories. The Mughal kings commissioned court historians to write accounts. These accounts recorded the events of the emperor’s time. In addition, their writers collected vast amounts of information from the regions of the subcontinent to help the rulers govern their domain. These texts were also intended as conveyors of meanings that the Mughal rulers sought to impose on their domain. They therefore give us a glimpse into how imperial ideologies were created and disseminated. Modern historians writing in English have termed this genre of texts chronicles, as they present a continuous chronological record of events.