Abbreviations
| AN | H. Beveridge (transl.), The Akbarnama of Abu-l-Fazl, 3 Volumes (New Delhi, 1979). With folio pagination. |
| AIN | H. Blochmann (transl.), The Āʾīn-i-Akbarī, 3 Volumes (New Delhi, 1977–8). |
| BN | Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, Bāburnāma: Chaghatay Turkish Text with Abdul Rahim Khankhanan’s Persian translation, Turkish Transcription, Persian Edition and English Translation by W. H. Thackston, Jr., 3 Volumes (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University: Sources of Oriental Languages & Literatures XVIII, ed. By S. Tekin & G. A Tekin, Turkish Sources XVI, 1993). With folio pagination. |
| ED | H. M. Elliot and J. Dowson (transl. and eds.), The History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes (London, 1867–77). |
| HN | A. Beveridge (transl. and ed.), Humayun-nama by Gulbadan Begum (Lahore, 1987). With folio pagination. |
| MA | J. Sarkar (transl.), Maāsir-i-ʿĀlamgiri: A History of the Emperor Aurangzib-ʿĀlamgir (reign 1658–1707 A.D.) of Saqi Mustʿad Khan (Calcutta, 1947). |
| Manucci | W. Irvine (transl.), Mogul India (1653–1708) or Storia do Mogor by Niccolao Manucci, 4 Volumes (1907–8; reprint New Delhi, 2005). |
| ML | S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Khafi Khan’s History of ʿAlamgir (Being an English translation of the relevant portion of Muntakhab al-Lubab with notes and an introduction) (Karachi, 1975). |
| MT | G. S. Ranking et al (transl.), Muntakhab-at-Tawarikh of Al-Badauni, 3 Volumes (New Delhi, 1990). |
| MU | H. Beveridge (transl.), The Maathir-ul-Umarā, 2 Volumes (Kolkata, 2003). |
| SJN | The Shah Jahan Nama of ʾInayat Khan, An abridged history of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian; the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A. R. Fuller (British Library Add. 30,777), edited and completed by W. E. Begley and Z. A. Desai (New Delhi, 1990). |
| TA | B. De (transl.), The Tabaqāt-i-Akbarī: A History of India from the early Musalman invasions to the thirty eighth year of the reign of Akbar, by Khwajah Nizamuddin Ahmad, 3 Volumes (New Delhi, 1990). |
| TJ | A. Rogers (transl.), Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (New Delhi, 1989). |
| TSS | S. M. Imam al-Din (ed. and transl.), The Tāʾrīkh-i-Sher Shāhī of ʿAbbas Khan Sarwānī, Volume I (Persian text) and II (English tranlsation) (Dhaka, 1964). |