From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 4 — Unit 4: Sources of Medieval Indian History unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
Ma'asir-ul-Umara, a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia of Mughal nobility, was compiled by:
Shah Nawaz Khan (and his son Abdul Hayy) ✓
Khafi Khan
Sujan Rai Bhandari
Abul Fazl
Shah Nawaz Khan, later completed by his son Abdul Hayy, compiled the Ma'asir-ul-Umara, a vast biographical dictionary of Mughal nobles and officers — an essential prosopographical source for reconstructing the careers of individual Mughal administrators.
Which foreign traveler provided a vivid eye-witness description of the Sati practice in the Mughal Empire during Shah Jahan's reign?
Peter Mundy
Tavernier
Bernier ✓
Manucci
Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire includes a widely cited firsthand description of Sati witnessed during his time in Mughal India — European travelogues like his are frequently used (with appropriate caution about bias) as social-history sources on such practices.
The Insha-i-Mahru, a valuable collection of official letters and state correspondence of the Tughlaq period, was compiled by:
Ain-ul-Mulk Multani (Mahru) ✓
Ziauddin Barani
Shams-i Siraj Afif
Malik Kafur
Ain-ul-Mulk Multani, known as Mahru, compiled his own official correspondence as the Insha-i-Mahru — a rare surviving collection of actual administrative letters, offering documentary evidence distinct from narrative chronicles.
The work Mirat-i-Ahmadi, an exhaustive administrative history and statistical gazetteer of the province of Gujarat, was written by:
Ali Muhammad Khan ✓
Sikandar b. Muhammad
Mir Ma'sum
Abul Fazl
Ali Muhammad Khan compiled the Mirat-i-Ahmadi as a detailed administrative and statistical gazetteer of Mughal Gujarat, a regional counterpart in style and value to the Ain-i-Akbari but focused on a single province.
Who composed the Tuzk-i-Jahangiri, the official memoirs written in Persian covering most of Jahangir's reign?
Jahangir himself (with later additions by Mutamad Khan and Muhammad Hadi) ✓
Abul Fazl
Abdul Hamid Lahori
Inayat Khan
Jahangir personally wrote his own memoirs (Tuzk-i-Jahangiri) in Persian for most of his reign, with the final years added by Mutamad Khan and later Muhammad Hadi — a rare instance, like Babur's, of a Mughal emperor's own candid autobiographical voice.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
