Abstract : This paper addresses the role of scribes in introducing and framing new methods of history writing in the seventeenth century when Mughal empire was ay its peak. It argues that majority of the scribal groups including the Kayasthas, Khatris and the Brahmins adapted to the Persianized methods of epistolography and literary traditions. In this context, the paper discusses in detail a seventeenth century account Nuskha-iDilkasha written by Bhimsen, a Kayastha scribe in the service of the Mughal nobility.