Maasir-i-Alamgiri is an account of Emperor Aurangzeb's(1620-1707) reign. It was composed after the death of the emperor by Saqi Musta'd Khan at the behest of Inayetullah Khan Kashmiri, the emperor's last secretary.
The chronicle is abridged in comparison to Alamgirnamah. Saqi Musta'd Khan was a munshi and diwan in the establishment of Bakhtawar Khan, who authored Mirat-ul-'Alam.
The printed Persian text was edited by Maulvi Agha Ahmad Ali and published by Bibliotheca Indica, Asiatic Society of Bengal. The chronicle was translated into English by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and published in 1947.
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