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Khafi Khan
Civil servant and historian of Mughal India
Muhammad Hashim (c. –), better known by his title Khafi Khan, was an Indo-Persian historian of Mughal India. His career began about – as a clerk in Bombay.
He served predominantly in Gujarat and the Deccan regions, including the final decade of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.[1] He authored the controversial and in part "patently fictitious" Muntakhab-al Lubab – a Persian language book about the history of India during the Mughal period, completed in [2] It has been a much studied, contested source of information about the Mughal history, particularly Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.[1][2][note 1]
Biography
Muhammad Hashim was given the title Khafi Khan (or Khwafi Khan) by emperor Muhammad Shah, because his ancestors came from Khaf (or Khwaf) in present-day Iran.
The exact date and place of his birth are unknown, but he was most probably born in India. The Muntakhab-al Lubab s