Anand Ram Mukhlis
Anand Ram Mukhlis Khatri Lahori[1] (1699–1750) was an 18th-century chronicler, poet and lexicographer active in Persian. Originally from a Khatri family of Sialkot in Punjab, but based in Delhi,[2] his grandfather Gajpat Rai had a high position in Mughal bureaucracy while his father Hirday Ram was a vakil of Amin Khan Turani at the court of Muhammad Shah.[3]
After the death of Amin Khan, his successor Qamar ud-Din Khan appointed Mukhlis as his vakil. Mukhlis had also served as vakil of governors of Multan and Lahore during the time of invasion of Nader Shah.[3] Mukhlis was a prolific writer and has left a large number of works, most important of which is Badāʾiʾ-i waqāʾiʾ, which is divided into three parts. First part is an eyewitness narration of Nader Shah's sack of Delhi; in second he gives first-hand report of Muhammad Shah's campaign against Ali Mohammed Khan Rohilla. Third concerns with the 1748 invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali. His other notable works include Mir’āt al-Iṣt̤ilāḥ, on Persian lexicography, a Dīvān comprising ghazals and mathnavis, and a collection of letters named Ruqaʿāt i Mukhliṣ.[3] Other works by Mukhlis include Chamanistān, a collection of anecdotes and witticism, Rāḥat al-faras, etc.[1]
References
- 1 2 "5.2 Ornate Prose (2)", Storey Online, Brill, doi:10.1163/2772-7696_SPLO_COM_30502000
- ↑ Alam, Muzaffar; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (1996). "Discovering the Familiar: Notes on the Travel-Account of Anand Ram Mukhlis, 1745". South Asia Research. 16 (2): 131–154. doi:10.1177/026272809601600202. ISSN 0262-7280.
- 1 2 3 Ahmad, Barakat (1982–2021). "ANAND RAM MOKLES". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 1.