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Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries A tribute to a polymath historian who recently passed away. Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb at the Qutb Shahi tombs in Hyderabad, October 2013. Photo: Author provided History10/Feb/2021 I first met Dr Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb in the summer of 2011, as a naïve PhD student who’d arrived in Hyderabad from Los Angeles wanting to “read Shah Jahan’s documents”. He asked me the very standard question asked of research students in India, “What is your topic?” I only had a rather inco...