Unit IX: The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles

NCERT CHAPTER NAME: KINGS AND CHRONICLES

Broad Overview: (a) Outline of political history c. 15th-17th centuries. (b) Discussion of the Mughal court and politics.

Story of Discovery: Account of the production of court chronicles, and their subsequent translation and transmission.

Excerpts: from the Akbarnama and Padshahnama.

Discussion: Ways in which historians have used the texts to reconstruct political histories.