UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2000 · Q5(b) · 20 marks
Amir Khusro was an eminent poet not a historian.
- Chapter
- Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Topic
- Historians and Sources: Barani, Minhaj and Amir Khusrau
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