Artist: Govardhan
In the year 1589,Emperor Akbar ordered the penning of India's Mughal history as well as biographies of the rulers of this dynasty. The person who was entrusted with this task was Abul Fazl Allami. He commenced work and was able to complete two volumes by the year 1602. In the third volume, he has followed Akbar until a year before his death in 1604.
Before entrusting Abul Fazl with this task, Akbar had endeavored to establish a department to record events in 1589. Fourteen people were employed here to carefully record the events of Akbar's life. He also wanted the older courtiers to collect events from earlier years. All these recorded events of this era were at Abul Fazl Allami's disposal.
Therefore, he has used three sources to compile Akbarnama: Evidence, Reports and Documents.
Since Persian was the official language of Akbar's court, Abul Fazl used to write in the Persian language, and also wrote Akbarnama in Persian.
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