Author: Annette Susannah Beveridge
Dilip Hero/
Translator(s): Annette Susannah Beveridge / Dilip Hero
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 385
ISBN/UPC (if available): 014400149-7
Description
Says Babur: The facts are as stated here, I have set down of good and bad whatever is known.
The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Against the turbulent backdrop of medieval history, it paints a precise and vivid picture of life in Central Asia and Afghanistan-where Babur ruled in Samarkand and Kabul-and in the Indian subcontinent, where his dazzling military career culminated in the founding of a dynasty that lasted three centuries.
Babur was far more than a skilled, often ruthless, warrior and master strategist. In this abridged and edited version of a 1921 English translation of his memoirs, he also emerges as a sensitive aesthete, naturalist, poet and lover. Writer, journalist and internationally acclaimed Middle eastern and Central Asian expert, Dilip Hiro breathes new life into a unique historical document that is at once objective and intensely personal-for, in Babur’s words, the truth should be reached in every matter.
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
Born in the Indian subcontinent, DILIP HIRO was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a master’s degree at Virginia Polytechnic & State University. He then settled in London in the mid-1960s, and became a full-time writer, journalist and commentator. He has published twenty-seven books.
Contents
Babur’s Family Tree
Maps
Main Characters
Islamic Calendar
Preface
Introduction
PART I-FERGANA AND SAMARKAND
Uzbekistan AH 899-AH 909
14 February AD1483-7July AD 1502
Chapter 1: AH 899
Chapter 2: AH 900-Ah 903
Chapter 3: AH 904
Chapter 4: AH 905-AH 906
Chapter 5: AH 907-AH 909
PART II-THE DOMAIN OF KABUL
Afghanistan AH 910-AH 931
14 June AD 1504-12 December AD1520
Chapter 6: AH 910
Chapter 7: AH 911
Chapter 8: AH 912
Chapter 9: AH 914-AH 924
Chapter 11: AH 925
Chapter 12: AH 926-AH 931
PART III
HINDUSTAN-INDIA AND PAKISTAN
AH 932-5 Jumada Awal AH 937
18 October AD 51525-12 August Ad 1530
Chapter 13: AH 932
Chapter 14: AH 933
Chapter 15: AH 934
Chapter 16: AH 935
Chapter 17: AH 936-5 Jumada Awal AH 937
Notes
Appendix 1: Titles, Religious and Secular
Appendix 2: Glossary of Foreign Words
Appendix 3: Babur’s Daily Prayers
Appendix 4: Babur’s Wives and Children
INDEX
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Born in the Indian subcontinent, DILIP HIRO was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a master’s degree at Virginia Polytechnic & State University. He then settled in London in the mid-1960s, and became a full-time writer, journalist and commentator. He has published twenty-seven books.