Historiography is the study of the processes by which historical understanding and knowledge is attained and shared. The use of historical methods and the writing of history through the perusal of these methods are done through this. The Mughal reign had created a lot of changes in the political and administrative spheres of the Indian subcontinent and no other had been more influential in this than Akbar the Great. It was a golden age for historiographers as he was a true patron. This paper studies the historiographers and their writing that bears testimony to the reign of the great emperor.