Who gifted the Badshah Nama to King George in 1799 ?

Who gifted the Badshah Nama to King George in 1799 ?

[amp_mcq option1=”Abul Fazl” option2=”Abdul Hamid Lahori” option3=”Nawab of Awadh” option4=”William Jones” correct=”option3″]

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The Nawab of Awadh gifted the *Badshah Nama* to King George in 1799.

The illustrated manuscript of the *Badshah Nama*, a chronicle of the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, that is now housed in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, was presented to King George III by Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II of Awadh in 1799.

Abul Fazl was the author of *Akbarnama*, a chronicle of Emperor Akbar’s reign, not Shah Jahan’s. Abdul Hamid Lahori was the principal author of the *Badshah Nama* during Shah Jahan’s reign, but he was the writer, not the person who gifted the manuscript to King George III much later. Sir William Jones was a renowned orientalist and founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, known for his studies of Indian languages and literature, but he was not the one who presented this specific gift.

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