The Baburnama : memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor
Both an official chronicle and a highly personal memoir, the Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Central Asia and India during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is also the text most often quoted by historians and scholars of Mughal India. The prose of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the first Mughal emperor, is described by its new translator Wheeler Thackston as frank, intimate, truthful, and unbiased
Print Book, English, 2002
Modern Library pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Modern Library, New York, 2002
Biography
xlvii, 554 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
9780375761379, 0375761373
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Introduction / Salman Rushdie
The Genghisid and Timurid: Background of Iran and Central Asia
Pt. 1. Fergana and Transoxiana
Events of the Years 899-908 [1494-1503]
Folios 1-120
Pt. 2. Kabul
Events of the Years 910-926 [1504-1520]
Folios 120-251
Pt. 3. Hindustan
Events of the Years 932-936 [1525-1530]
Folios 251-382
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1996