Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s1.34

c18.s1.34

Among the learned men of his Court may be mentioned Mīrzā Ghiyāṣ Beg, unrivalled in elegant composition and arithmetic.² Naqīb Khān was noted for his knowledge of history—a subject on which he wrote much. Mu’tamad Khān, whom we have noticed above, and Ni’matullah were Jahāngīr’s historiographers.³ Under Jahāngīr’s patronage, Ni’matullah systematized into a book the materials collected by Haibat Khān of Sāmāna regarding the history of the Afġhāns.⁴ ’Abdul Ḥaqq Dihlawī, one of the most learned men of the time, came to wait upon Jahāngīr and presented him with a book upon the lives of the Shaikhs of India.⁵