Chronicles

1.     The chronicles called Tawarikh by courtiers of Kings: ZiauddinBarani (13th-14th Centuries) – Tarikh-i-Firoze Shahi – preserves the history of the Delhi

2.     Minhas-us-Siraj, Ziauddin Barani and Ibn Batuta, the famous historians, wrote in Persian to inform about rulers and mainpolitical episodes.

3.     Social, political-economic experiments of Allauddin Khilji, Muhhamad bin Tuglaq or Balban are known to us through such Chronicles.

Travelogues

1.    Travellers such Ibn Battuta and Al Beruni wrote Rihlah and Kitab ul Hind respectively as broad observation books on Indian culture and people

Administration

1.    Persian being the language of administration all through that age,

2.    Europe knew India through the Jesuit accounts which reflected the details of state officials and general conditions of life in Mughal times given in Persian chronicles.

Mughal court narratives

1.    Persian remained the official language of the Mughal court too, as it was in the case of the Delhi Sultanate. Babur, with his interest in literature, got his memoirs translated into Persian by Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan. A Persian diwan was composed by Humayun, whereas Dara Shikoh wrote a biographical version of the Sufi saint Mian Mir.

2.    It was the language of Mughal court chronicles. Mughal chronicles like the Akbar Nama were written in Persian. Besides, the Mughal emperors commissioned translations of Sanskrit texts, for example, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana into Persian.