When Jahangir had written his Memoirs for the first twelve years of his reign,he made them into a volume. The present book is a translation of the first volume of the memoirs but the translation of the whole memoirs,together with the additions of Mu'tamad Khan and Muhammad Hadi has been completed. It is perhaps unnecessary tosay anything about the importance of Jahangir's Memoirs. They give a lively picture of India in the early decades of the seventeenth century and are a valuable supplement to the Akbar-nama.

It also give an account of Jahangir's life from his birth up to his accession.Jahangir's Memoirs are by far the most entertaining as Jahangir himself was a man of strange mixture.