Baburnamah / Tuzuk-e-Baburi / Waqiat-e-Baburi / Baburiat by Babur or Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad
Autobiographical memoirs of the Emperor from his accession in June 1494 to September 1529. Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire in India was descendent of Timur and born in 1483. The greater part of his life was spent in war. He took Kabul in 1504, Qandahar in 1506, several times invaded Hindustan and in 1526 finally defeated Ibrahim Lodi he became substantially the master of Hindustan he was a good writer and left a valuable autobiography and a Divan in Chaghtai Turkish
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In Persian by Shaykh Zainuddin Kwafi, Mirza Payanda Hassan Ghaznavi, Abdur Rahim Khan E Kanan completed in 1950.
In French: Pavet de Courteille, Paris, 1870.
In English: A. Beveridge, London 1921, 2 Vols
Baburnama gives graphic description of the early years of Babur in Farghana and Samarqand, his quarrels with cousins. It describes in detail the flora and fauna of India and his personal impressions of the nature and climate of India and also th works of art and industries.
Barber was also a poet and the author of divine in ducky which was edited by doctor E Denison Ross in 1910. What ads a special interest to the contents of this volume is the fact that it has preserved a poetical work by Barber which has hitherto considered to be irretrievably lost. As a man of parts, the estimate of Mirza Haydar is valuable in the composition of perky poetry he was second only to Amir Ali Sher. The divine written by him is most lucid Turkey. He invented a style called Mubarak and was the author of most useful treaties on jurisprudence. He also wrote an essay on Turki parody...’
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