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The T?zuk-i-Jah?ng?r?, or the Memoirs of Jahangir, written by Nur-ud-Din Muhammad Salim Jahangir (r.1605-1627) gives a lively picture of India in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Written in Persian, Jahangir follows the writing style of his great-grandfather Babur. It contains details pertaining to art, battles and conquests, military aspects, religion, social issues, and his household. T?zuk contains the first nineteen years (1605-1623) of Jahangir’s rule, while the rest of the memoirs were entrusted to Muhammad Hadi and Mutamid Khan, who wrote the biography of the said Mughal em­peror, Iqb?l N?ma-i-Jah?ng?r?. The autobiography meticulously de­scribes the minute details depicting flora and fauna, as Jahangir was also a naturalist. Also, it contains the early life of Jahangir’s successor and the fourth Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan (r.1628-58). The printed version was published by Islamic scholar and reformer Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, printed at Ghazipur (1863) and Aligarh (1864). Filled with folios containing miniature paintings, the entire manuscript of T?zuk is preserved at the National Museum, New Delhi, and several albums are deposited at the British?Museum,?London.