Correct Answer - Option 4 : Nizam-ud-din Ahmed
The correct answer is Nizam-ud-din Ahmed.
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Nizam-ud-din Ahmed:
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He was a Muslim historian of late medieval India.
- His work is a general history of India covering the time from the Ghaznavids up to 1593-94.
- He was Akbar's Mir Bakhshi.
- This book is very important for the reconstruction of the history of Bengal in the Sultanate period.
- Bengal is famous for the lack of historical materials in the pre-Mughal period.
- The Tabaqat is the first of the two histories written in the Mughal period which includes a separate chapter beginning with the conquest of Bakhtiyar Khilji.
- The other book is Tarikh-i-Firishtah.
