This work divided across three volumes - chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (16281658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the emphasis throughout is on the rise and fall of courtiers, governors, administrators, and military commanders and on incessant military campaigns in the Deccan, Bengal, and Afghanistan, but valuable details of life at court and the architecture of one of Indias most avid builders are also included. This is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Mughal India as well as those interested in Persian and Iranian studies.
Chapter 1 The beginning of the first year of the third decade of the
reign of the adorner of the throne of success, his majesty the sahib-qiran
ii.
Chapter 2 The beginning of the second year of the third decade of the
reign.
Chapter 3 The beginning of the third year of the third decade of the
reign.
Wheeler Thackston is a retired professor of Persian and other Near Eastern languages. He has translated the memoirs of Babur and Jahangir, several histories of Humayun, the Akbarnama, and Ghulam Husain Khans history of eighteenth-century India.
