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The official historian of Shah Jahan's reign who authored the monumental Padshahnama (first two decades) was:

Abdul Hamid Lahori ✓

Inayat Khan

Muhammad Waris

Sujan Rai Bhandari

Abdul Hamid Lahori, modeling his work explicitly on Abul Fazl's Akbarnama, wrote the official Padshahnama covering the first two decades of Shah Jahan's reign; Muhammad Waris later continued the chronicle for the following decade.

Alamgirnama, the official chronicle covering the first ten years of Emperor Aurangzeb's reign, was composed by:

Mirza Muhammad Kazim ✓

Saqi Mustaid Khan

Khafi Khan

Ishwardas Nagar

Mirza Muhammad Kazim wrote the Alamgirnama as the official chronicle of Aurangzeb's first decade; Aurangzeb later discontinued official court chronicling, which is why later sources like the Ma'asir-i-Alamgiri had to fill the gap for the rest of his reign.

The critical work Muntakhab-ul-Lubab, providing an exhaustive history of the Mughal Empire up to Muhammad Shah, was written secretly by:

Khafi Khan (Muhammad Hashim) ✓

Bhimsen Saxena

Sujan Rai Bhandari

Aqil Khan Razi

Khafi Khan wrote the Muntakhab-ul-Lubab secretly (Aurangzeb had banned unofficial chronicling of his own reign), producing an unusually independent, even critical, narrative of the empire extending to Muhammad Shah's reign.

Nuskha-i-Dilkasha, an indispensable contemporary primary source for Mughal military operations in the Deccan under Aurangzeb, was written by:

Bhimsen Saxena ✓

Ishwardas Nagar

Sujan Rai Bhandari

Saqi Mustaid Khan

Bhimsen Saxena, a Hindu official who personally served in the Deccan campaigns, wrote the Nuskha-i-Dilkasha as a firsthand military-administrative account, valuable precisely because it offers a participant's, rather than a court chronicler's, view.

The historical text Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi (a separate work continuing from Barani's coverage) was composed by:

Shams-i Siraj Afif ✓

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi

Minhaj-us-Siraj

Fakhr-i Mudabbir

Shams-i Siraj Afif wrote his own, separate Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi focused specifically and admiringly on Firoz Shah Tughlaq's reign, distinct from — and continuing chronologically after — Barani's earlier work of the same title.

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