UGC NET History Practice Question

Who authored the Humayunnama, providing crucial insights into court life and royal women during early Mughal rule?

Maham Anaga

Gulbadan Begum ✓

Hamida Banu Begum

Nur Jahan

Gulbadan Begum, Babur's daughter and Humayun's half-sister, wrote the Humayunnama at Akbar's request — a rare and valuable source written by a Mughal woman, offering perspective on royal domestic and female life largely absent from male court chronicles.

The chronicle Tarikh-i-Mubaraksahi, the sole contemporary primary source for the history of the Sayyid Dynasty of Delhi, was written by:

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi ✓

Rizqullah Mushtaqi

Ali Muhammad Khan

Khwandamir

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi's Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi is the only substantial contemporary chronicle covering the short-lived Sayyid dynasty, making it disproportionately important for reconstructing this transitional, poorly-documented period of Sultanate history.

Nuh Sipihr (The Nine Skies), a poetic work highlighting the cultural synthesis, languages, flora, and fauna of India, was written by:

Amir Khusrau ✓

Hasan Sijzi

Ziauddin Barani

Utbi

Amir Khusrau's Nuh Sipihr is notable for its enthusiastic, celebratory description of India's languages, climate, and natural wealth — often cited as an early expression of a distinctly Indo-Persian cultural identity and pride in India itself.

The French physician Francois Bernier, author of Travels in the Mogul Empire, was primarily attached to which Mughal prince as a physician?

Dara Shikoh ✓

Shah Shuja

Murad Bakhsh

Aurangzeb

Bernier served as physician to Dara Shikoh before the War of Succession, later remaining in India and writing his influential Travels in the Mogul Empire — a widely-read, if sometimes generalized, European perspective on Mughal state and society.

Ma'asir-i-Alamgiri, which completed the history of Aurangzeb's entire 50-year reign after his death, was written by:

Saqi Mustaid Khan ✓

Mirza Muhammad Kazim

Ishwardas Nagar

Bhimsen

Since Aurangzeb had discontinued official chronicling of his own reign after the Alamgirnama's early years, Saqi Mustaid Khan compiled the Ma'asir-i-Alamgiri after the emperor's death to provide a complete year-by-year record of the full 50-year reign.

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