Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi is a famous historical
work of Medieval India. Also called Tuhfat-i-Akbar Shahi, it was written by
Abbas Khan Sarwani on the instruction of Akbar. The work is useful for knowing
more about Sher Shah, the Afghan ruler who defeated Mughal emperor Humayun,
father of Akbar.
But for his untimely death of Sher Shah who
drove Huayun out of India and the weaknesses of his successors, the nascent Mughal
empire might have been relegated to the dustbin of history. Sarwani
was connected by marriage with family of Sher Shah. Later historians of the
Mughal period like Badauni and Nizamu-ddin drew heavily from Sarwani.
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