Indian art and culture / Literature, languages and sources
Persian and Arabic chronicles, memoirs and translations
Concepts to cover
- Minhaj-us-Siraj (Tabaqat-i-Nasiri), Ziauddin Barani (Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, Fatawa-i-Jahandari), Isami (Futuh-us-Salatin), Afif, Yahya Sirhindi
- Amir Khusrau: Khazain-ul-Futuh, Tughlaqnama, Nuh Sipihr, Hindavi verse, 'parrot of India', Nizamuddin Auliya's disciple
- Al-Biruni's Kitab-ul-Hind (Arabic, eleventh century) and Ibn Battuta's Rihla (Arabic, fourteenth century) as outsider accounts
- Baburnama (Turki), Humayunnama (Gulbadan Begum), Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari (Abul Fazl), Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh (Badauni), Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, Padshahnama (Lahori), Alamgirnama
- Translations under Akbar (Razmnama, Ramayana, Yogavasistha by Nizamuddin Panipati, Lilavati) and Dara Shikoh (Sirr-i-Akbar Upanishads, Majma-ul-Bahrain)
- The Mughal kitabkhana: manuscript production, calligraphy, illustration, binding and preservation