Description
The Mughals are often lauded as a Persian-medium dynasty, a somewhat misleading classification that has caused many scholars to underemphasize the multilingual nature of Mughal literary culture. Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) did indeed declare Persian the official administrative tongue in 1582, and he allocated unparalleled imperial resources to supporting Persian-medium literature, including poetry, philosophy, and history. At the time, Persian was the language of rule and culture across much of the wider Islamicate world.