Tuesday 10 April 2018

Babur: Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor, 1483–1530

Paperback – 30 Apr 2018


by Stephen F. Dale


  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (30 April 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1107107261

This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. Based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse, it chronicles the life and career of a Central Asian, Turco-Mongol Muslim who, driven from his homeland by Uzbeks in 1504, ruled Kabul for two decades before invading “Hindustan” in 1526. It offers a revealing portrait of Babur's Perso-Islamic culture, Timurid imperial ambition and turbulent emotional life. It is, above all, a humanistic portrait of an individual, who even as he triumphed in South Asia, suffered the regretful anguish of an exile who felt himself to be a stranger in a strange land.

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