Which of the following statements are true?
(A) Mughal court chronicles were written in Persian, though the mother tongue of the Mughals was Turkish.
(B) Persian was later Indianised and a new language, Urdu, sprang from the interaction of Persian and Hindavi.
(C) The Mughal chronicle Akbar Nama was originally written in Turkish language.
(D) It was only after the arrival of the British East India Company that Mahabharata was translated into Persian as the Razmnama.
(E) ’Kitabkhana' in the Mughal period was the centre of manuscript production, scriptorum.

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

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The correct answer is Option 1 - 1 [(A),(B),(E) only]

Given statements:

(A) Mughal court chronicles were written in Persian, though the mother tongue of the Mughals was Turkish.
(B) Persian was later Indianised and a new language, Urdu, sprang from the interaction of Persian and Hindavi.
(C) The Mughal chronicle Akbar Nama was originally written in Turkish language. (Incorrect)
(D) It was only after the arrival of the British East India Company that Mahabharata was translated into Persian as the Razmnama. (Incorrect)
(E) ’Kitabkhana' in the Mughal period was the centre of manuscript production, scriptorum.

The correct statements are: (1) (A),(B),(E) only

(A) Mughal court chronicles were indeed written in Persian, even though the mother tongue of the Mughals was Turkish. Persian was the language of administration and culture in the Mughal court.

(B) Persian was later Indianized, and a new language, Urdu, emerged from the interaction of Persian and Hindavi. Urdu became a significant language during the Mughal period and continued to evolve over time.

(C) The statement about Akbar Nama being originally written in Turkish is incorrect. Akbar Nama, the official biographical account of Akbar's reign, was written by Abu'l-Fazl in Persian.

(D) The statement about the Mahabharata being translated into Persian as the Razmnama after the arrival of the British East India Company is incorrect. The Razmnama was a Persian translation of the Mahabharata commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, much earlier than the British East India Company's arrival.

(E) All books in Mughal India were manuscripts, that is, they were handwritten. The centre of manuscript production was the imperial kitabkhana. Although kitabkhana can be translated as library, it was a scriptorium, that is, a place where the emperor’s collection of manuscripts was kept and new manuscripts were produced.