The book is an exclusively genuine biography on Humayun, the eldest son of Babur, by his step sister Gulbadan Begum, written on the request of Emperor Akbar as he wanted a sort of record for Abul Fazl, his own historian, to read before he embarked on writing the Akbar Nama. The original manuscript, titled â??Ahwal Humayun Padshah Jamah Kardom Gulbadan Begum bint Bahadur Padshah amma Akbar Padshahâ?, was discovered by Annete Beveridge in the British Museum among 1000 other manuscripts which w...