Mughal Administration c16.s2.2

c16.s2.2

The earliest Hindu *munshi* of note (after Harkarn Itibarkhani, *c.* 1624), known to me was Chandrabhan (poetical name *Brahman*), a protege of Shah Jahan’s wazir Sadullah Khan, who has left works in elegant prose and conventional verse besides some letters of little historical value. But from the middle of the 17th century onwards, Hindu clerks rapidly multiplied under most nobles, till at last in the 18th century a Hindu rose to be Secretary (Mir Munshi) to the Emperor Muhammad Shah,—I mean Anand Ram (pen-name *Mukhlis*.)