Haidar Malik

Haidar Malik Chadurah (died 1627) was an administrator, and soldier in Kashmir in the service of Salim Nuruddin Jahangir, the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 until his death in 1627. Haidar Malik wrote the best known Persian-language history of Kashmir (completed 1621) one of several books entitled Tarikh-i-Kashmir, identified as Tarikh-i-Haidar Malik.

Malik Muhammad Chadurah was born in Chadurah, a village ten miles south of Srinagar, as the son of Hasan Malik.[1]

His history was translated into English as Haidar Malik Chadurah History of Kashmir, Raja Bano, Bhavna Prakashan, 1991.

References

  1. ↑ Mohibbul Hasan Kashmīr Under the Sultāns 1959- Page 8 "The most well-known Persian history of Kashmir is that of Haidar Malik, the son of Hasan Malik ..."After the latter was killed, Haidar Malik gave protection in his own house to Sher Afgan's wife Mihru'n-Nisa', the future Nur Jahan. When Yusuf Khan died Haidar Malik entered the service of Jahangir, who conferred upon him the titles of ..."
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