A number of ethnic Persian technocrats, bureaucrats, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, poets, artists, theologians and Sufis migrated and settled in different parts of the Indian Subcontinent after coming of Mughals in India. Persian people were among one of the major ethnic groups, who accompanied the ethnic Turko-Mongol ruling elite of the Mughal Empire.
The new era of Persian literature was started because Mughals were great patrons of literature and laureates. During this period, many texts were translated into Persian from different languages. For Example: The Turki memoirs of Babur were translated into Persian.
Famous Persian Historians of the Mughal Period
| Book | Writer and Historian | Patron |
| Tarikh-i-Rashidi | Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Beg | Humayun |
| Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari | Abu'l-Fazl | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Firishtah | Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah | Akbar |
| Tabaqat-i-Akbari | Nizamuddin Ahmad | Akbar |
| Muntakhabut-Tawarikh | Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi | Abbas Khan Sarwani | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Salatine Afghana | Ahmed Yadgar | Not-mentioned |
| Tazkirat-ul-Waqiat | Jauhar Aftabchi | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Sindh | Mir Muhammad Masoom Shah Bakhri | Akbar |
| Waqiat-i-Mushtaqi | Shiekh Rizq Ullah Mushtaqui | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Humayunshahi | Jauhar Aftabchi | Akbar |
| Tarikh-i-Akbari | Muhammad Arif Qandhari | Akbar |
| Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri | Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir | Jahangir |
| Makhjan-i-Afghana | Ni'mat Allah al-Harawi | Jahangir |
| Tarikh-i-Dandi | Abdullah | Jahangir |
| Maasiri-i-Jahangir | Gharat Khan | Jahangir |
| Shah Jahan Nama | Md Sadiq Khan | Shah Jahan |
| Padshah Namah | Mohammed Waris | Shah Jahan |
| Alamgirnamah | Mirza Muhammad Kazim | Shah Jahan |
| Masir-e-Alamgiri | Mohd. Saqi Mustaid khan | Aurangzeb |
| Zafar Namah | Guru Gobind Singh Ji | Aurangzeb |
| Muntakhab-ul-Lubab | Muhammad Hāshim or Hashim 'Ali Khan (Khafi Khan) | Aurangzeb |
| Futuhat-e-Alamgih | Ishwar Das Nagar | Aurangzeb |
| Nuskha-e-Dilkusha | Bhimsen Burhanpuri | Aurangzeb |
| Khulasat-u-Tawarikh | Surjan Rai Khatri | Aurangzeb |
| Sijarul Mutkhann | Ghulam Hussain | Aurangzeb |
| Imadus Sadat | Ghulam Naqvi | Aurangzeb |
Most of the Persian historian who came to India and wrote their works here under the Indian patronage. There is no such evidence that poets and scholars of Persian language, migrated to India in such large numbers. It is mostly from Babur’s regime or the advent of the Mughal rule that the Persian language in India has acquired its own significance.
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