1641. Manrique distinguished "Persian" pilau from "Mogol" biryani:

The dish is mentioned, too, in letters of the emperor Aurangzeb to his son. For example:

According to the historian Rana Safvi, the earliest actual recipe is from the later Mughal period, from Bahadur Shah Zafar's time.

Analysis

The historian of food Lizzie Collingham writes that the modern biryani developed in