Who is the author of 'Akbarnama'?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Abu'l Fazl
Abu’l Fazl wrote the Akbar Nama, the history of Akbar’s reign commissioned by the emperor; its third book is the Ain-i Akbari.
NCERT (2026-27): “8. The Ain-i Akbari of Abu’l Fazl Allami … The Ain-i Akbari was the culmination of a large historical, administrative project of classification undertaken by Abu’l Fazl at the order of Emperor Akbar. It was completed in 1598, the forty-second regnal year of the emperor, after having gone through five revisions. The Ain was part of a larger project of history writing commissioned by Akbar. This history, known as the Akbar Nama, comprised three books. The first two provided a historical narrative. We will look at these parts more closely in Chapter 9. The Ain-i Akbari, the third book, was organised as a compendium of imperial regulations and a gazetteer of the empire.…”
Fig. 8.14 Abu’l Fazl presenting the manuscript of the completed Akbar Nama to his patron |
