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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Ahmad Yadgar''' was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]-era author of the ''Tārikh-i-Salātin-i-Afghāniyah'', a history of the [[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]] monarchs of [[India]]. [[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]] by [[Henry Miers Elliot]] and [[John Dowson]] provides a translation of the work. In his preface, Yadgar claims to be "an old servant of the [[Sur Empire|Sur]] kings" and states that the work was commissioned by [[Daud Khan Karrani|Daud Shah]], the last Afghan ruler of [[Bengal]]. The book covers events from the time of [[Bahlul Lodi]] with the final chapter detailing the defeat and subsequent execution of [[Hemu]] at the [[Second Battle of Panipat]].<ref>{{cite book|title=History of india, as told by its own historians : The Muhammadan Period|date=1873|publisher=Trübner and co.|page=1|url=http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D80201010%26ct%3D0|accessdate=16 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825184925/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D80201010%26ct%3D0|archive-date=25 August 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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Modern critical scholarship, however, considers his book to very likely be spurious. Yadgar's claims of having witnessed the dying days of the Sur Empire and of serving under Daud Shah have been rejected as fabricated. His book, was very likely composed to be sold by booksellers to gullible customers curious about the Afghans who had by then passed out of history. Much of its contents have been copied verbatim from works written during [[Akbar]] and [[Jahangir|Jahangir's]] reigns.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hadi|first1=Nabi|title=Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature|date=1994|publisher=Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts|location=Janpath, New Delhi|isbn=9788170173113|page=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjJmzdJFOHwC|accessdate=12 July 2016}}</ref><br />
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* [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924073036752#page/n13/mode/2up ''Tārīkh-i-Salātīn-i-Afāghana''], a translation from Volume V of [[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]], 1867<br />
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