UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2010 · Q5(a) · 20 marks
Provide a comparative analysis of the development of Arabic and Persian historiography.
- Chapter
- Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Topic
- Historians and Sources: Barani, Minhaj and Amir Khusrau
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