Question 1

Kitab-ur-Rehla (The Travelogue) was written in Arabic by which 14th-century Moroccan traveler who visited the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq?

Accepted Answer

Ibn Battuta — Ibn Battuta's Rehla records his extensive travels including years spent at Muhammad bin Tughlaq's court as a qazi — an invaluable, if sometimes exaggerated, outsider's eyewitness account of Sultanate administration and society.

Question 2

The Baburnama (Tuzk-i-Baburi), the autobiography of Emperor Babur, was originally written in which language?

Accepted Answer

Chagatai Turkic — Babur wrote his memoirs in Chagatai Turkic, his native tongue — it was only later translated into Persian (under Akbar) and remains celebrated as an unusually candid and literary royal autobiography for its time.

Question 3

Who translated Babur's autobiography into Persian during the reign of Emperor Akbar under the title Baburnama?

Accepted Answer

Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan — Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Akbar's noted general and poet, translated Babur's Chagatai Turkic memoir into Persian, making it accessible to the wider Mughal court and later generations of Persian-reading historians.

Question 4

The official chronicle Akbarnama and its statistical appendix Ain-i-Akbari were authored by:

Accepted Answer

Abul Fazl Allami — Abul Fazl, Akbar's close confidant and chief ideologue, wrote the official Akbarnama and its detailed statistical/administrative appendix Ain-i-Akbari — together the single richest source for Akbar's reign and Mughal administrative structure.

Question 5

Which historian wrote Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, a critical contemporary account of Akbar's religious policies written secretly?

Accepted Answer

Abdul Qadir Badauni — Badauni wrote the Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh secretly (it was not published in his lifetime) as an orthodox, critical counterpoint to Abul Fazl's official, more favorable narrative — historians read the two together to balance out each author's bias.

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