History · Sources of Medieval Indian History
UGC NET June 2013 History
Who justified the Mughal attack on Malwa by saying that Baz Bahadur occupied himself with 'unlawful and vicious practices'?
ANizamuddin Ahmad ✓ Correct
BAbdul Qadir Badauni
CArif Qandhari
DAbul Fazl
Correct answer: (A) Nizamuddin Ahmad — Nizamuddin Ahmad justified the attack, so the answer is Nizamuddin Ahmad.
Explanation
★Nizamuddin Ahmad justified the attack, so the answer is Nizamuddin Ahmad.
★He wrote that Baz Bahadur of Malwa had given himself to unlawful and vicious practices.
★This was used to defend the Mughal conquest of Malwa.
★Nizamuddin Ahmad was a Muslim historian of late medieval India and Akbar's Mir Bakhshi.
★His work, the Tabaqat-i-Akbari, is a general history up to the thirty-eighth year of Akbar.
★Baz Bahadur was famed in legend for his love of the musician queen Rupmati.
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