Ahmad Yadgar

Ahmad Yadgar was a Mughal-era author of the Tārikh-i-Salātin-i-Afghāniyah, a history of the Afghan monarchs of India. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians by Henry Miers Elliot and John Dowson provides a translation of the work. In his preface, Yadgar claims to be "an old servant of the Sur kings" and states that the work was commissioned by Daud Shah, the last Afghan ruler of Bengal. The book covers events from the time of Bahlul Lodi with the final chapter detailing the defeat and subsequent execution of Hemu at the Second Battle of Panipat.[1]

Modern critical scholarship, however, considers his book to very likely be spurious. Yadgar's claims of having witnessed the dying days of the Sur Empire and of serving under Daud Shah have been rejected as fabricated. His book, was very likely composed to be sold by booksellers to gullible customers curious about the Afghans who had by then passed out of history. Much of its contents have been copied verbatim from works written during Akbar and Jahangir's reigns.[2]

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1. ^ History of india, as told by its own historians : The Muhammadan Period. Trübner and co. 1873. p. 1\. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
2. ^ Hadi, Nabi (1994). Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature. Janpath, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. p. 53\. ISBN 9788170173113. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

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* Tārīkh-i-Salātīn-i-Afāghana, a translation from Volume V of The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, 1867