History of Aurangzib: Based on Original Sources

Jadunath Sarkar’s History of Aurangzib is based mainly on original contemporary Persian sources, viz., the Mughal State-papers, daily bulletins of the Mughal Court, the records of impartial non-official writers (such as two Persian memoirs by contemporary Hindu writers), the letters of Aurangzib, his father, brothers, sons, grandsons, officers, and vassal kings, and other makers of Indian history, revenue returns, etc. Most of these are preserved in Persian MSS, for which the author has exhaustively searched Indian and European libraries, besides making some important findings at Benaras, Lucknow, and Rampur.