Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c24.49

c24.49

| A.H. | | A.D. |
| 946–952 | Shīr Shāh, a friend of learning | 1539–1545 |
| 952–960 | Islām Shāh | 1545–1552 |
| 962–963 | Humāyūn’s restoration and death | 1555–1556 |
| 963–1014 | Akbar the Great, statesman and patron of letters, a most enlightened and liberal monarch | 1556–1605 |
| 981 | Builds ’Ibādat Khāna | 1574 |
| | Holds famous assemblies therein, 144–147 | |
| | Favours Hindu learning and literature and promotes the translation of the *Mahābhārata*, *Rāmāyaṇa*, and other Sanskrit classics into Persian and Hindi, 147–150 | |
| | Co-education of Muhammadans and Hindus, 160–161 | |
| | Technical improvements in education, 161 | |
| 969 | Madrasah of Māham Anaga, 165–167 | 1561 |
| | ’Abdul Raḥīm, great patron of letters, 169–170 | |
| 1014–1037 | Jahāngīr, connoisseur of books and pictures | 1605–1628 |
| | Excellence of painting in his reign, 187 | |
| | Farrukh Beg, Abūl Ḥasan, Manṣūr, painters, 176–177 | |
| | Jahāngīr’s law of intestacy, 174–5 | |
| 1037–1069 | Shāh Jahān, builder and restorer of colleges | 1628–1659 |
| | Prince Dārā Shikūh, great scholar and patron of Hindu literature and religion, 184–186 | |
| | *Pādshāh Nāmah* and its author, 183 | |
| 1056 | Death of Nūr Jahān | 1646 |
| 1067 | Upanishads translated into Persian, 185 | 1657 |
| 1069–1119 | Aurangzib, promoter of Muslim education and learning | 1659–1707 |
| | Pioneer of compulsory education and of grants to students according to proficiency, 187–189 | |
| | Educates his eldest daughter, 204 | |
| | Views on the education of princes, 192 | |
| 1119–1124 | Bahādur Shāh, under whom Muslim rule begins to decline | 1707–1712 |
| 1131–1161 | Muḥammad Shāh, patron of astronomy | 1719–1748 |