Padshahnama: A Chronicle of the Reign of Shahjahan (VOLUME 3: 1647-1657)

This work divided across three volumes chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628 1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the emphasis throughout is on the rise and fall of courtiers, governors, administrators, and military commanders and on incessant military campaigns in the Deccan, Bengal, and Afghanistan, but valuable details of life at court and the architecture of one of India s most avid builders are also included. This is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Mughal India as well as those interested in Persian and Iranian studies.
 

List of contents

Chapter 1 The beginning of the first year of the third decade of the reign of the adorner of the throne of success, his majesty the sahib-qiran ii.- Chapter 2 The beginning of the second year of the third decade of the reign.- Chapter 3 The beginning of the third year of the third decade of the reign.

About the author

Wheeler Thackston is a retired professor of Persian and other Near Eastern languages. He has translated the memoirs of Babur and Jahangir, several histories of Humayun, the Akbarnama, and Ghulam Husain Khan’s history of eighteenth-century India.

Summary

This work—divided across three volumes—chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the emphasis throughout is on the rise and fall of courtiers, governors, administrators, and military commanders and on incessant military campaigns in the Deccan, Bengal, and Afghanistan, but valuable details of life at court and the architecture of one of India’s most avid builders are also included. This is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Mughal India as well as those interested in Persian and Iranian studies.
 

Product details

• Authors: W M Thackston, W. M. Thackston, Wheeler M Thackston Jr, Wheeler M. Thackston Jr., Muhammad Waris Edited and Translate W M Thackston, Muhammad Waris Edited and Translated by W. M. Thackston
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2025
• EAN: 9789819658510
• ISBN: 978-981-9658-51-0
• No. of pages: 811
• Illustrations: VIII, 811 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Iranian and Persian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Naher Osten, Asien, Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Asian History, Philology, History of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Literature, Asian Literature, Language Translation, Persian Literature, The Moghuls of India, Dynastic Histories, Parallel Translation of Persian Texts, Iranian Philology, Persian Translations into English, Historical Biographies, India History, Historical Texts