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		Baburnama or Babar Nameh (Persian: بابر نامہ) (literally: "Book of Babur" or "Letters of Babur") are the memoirs of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, commonly known as Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire and the great-great-great-grandson of Tamerlane.
		The Baburnama begins with these plain words: In the province of Fergana, in the year 1494, when I was twelve year old, I became king.
		The final section of the Baburnama covers the years 1525 to 1529 and the establishment of the Mughal empire in South Asia, which Babur's descendants would rule for three centuries.
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		Baburnama are the memoirs of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur Padshah Gazi the first Padshah of Hindustan.
		The paintings of the Baburnama of the National Museum manuscript were made at the end of the 16th century and are considered to be from the mature phase of Akbar period paintings when Mughal art was still under the influence of Persian art but was creating a new niche for itself.
		In most of the paintings of the Baburnama the face of Babur is shown in three quarter profile and he occupies the central position.
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	The Little Magazine - Conflict Amitav Ghosh
		The Baburnama, the autobiography of India’s first Mogul emperor, Zahiruddin Mohammad Babur (1483 -1530), is one of the true marvels of the medieval world.
		To read The Baburnama is constantly to ask oneself what could possibly have prompted a man in Babur’s position to write his memoirs.
		The women of The Baburnama are strong-willed and independent, and they declare their own agency without hesitation, in matters political and personal.
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		He kept a diary of his daily activities, which was a frank and detailed account of the battles he fought, the countries he conquered and its people.
		The Baburnama, written in his own hand in Turkish toward the end of his life, was translated among others, by Wheeler Thackston (published by the Modern Library, in association with the Smithsonian Institution.) It contains many examples of the above features of his character.
		Baburnama is believed to be the first autobiography in the Islamic world.
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		A strain of deep melancholy runs through the last pages of the The Baburnama, as though Babur had come to realise that ruling his new kingdom would entail permanent exile from the landscapes of his childhood.
		W.M. Thackston's translation of The Baburnama is splendidly illustrated with reproductions of photographs and paintings from the collections of the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler galleries in Washington.
		Having myself first encountered The Baburnama in the Beveridge translation, as a schoolboy, I was initially outraged at his easy dismissal of his predecessor.
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		Its mountains, rivers, forests, and wildernesses, its villages and provinces, animals and plants, peoples and languages, even its rain and winds are altogether different.' They were different indeed, and we're fortunate to have this beautifully illustrated record of Babur's wonderment at the new places he saw.
		Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
		Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.
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		The earliest authentic reference to a diamond which may have been the Koh-I-Noor is found in the Baburnama, the memoirs of Babur, the first Mogul ruler of India.
		With the blood in his veins of two of the greatest conquerors Asia has ever seen, it is not all that surprising that Babur himself should have become a great conqueror in his own right.
		In the Baburnama, Babur alluded to the Sultan Al-ed-Din Khalji, the ruler of Delhi from 1295 to 1316.
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	Indology » Philosophy » philosophy » BABUR IN HIS OWN WORDS on Sulekha Groups
		But what interests us today is that the Baburnama gives us an intimate look at the man and his methods, allowing us to contrast this with the sanitized version found in history books.
		Now, thanks to a superb new edition of the Baburnama (Oxford University Press, 1996), here is an opportunity for all of us to decide whether Babur was indeed a prince charming or if the abuse Babur ki aulad has any basis in fact.
		All translators of the Baburnama are hampered by the fact that Babur wrote in his native Chaghatay dialect of Turkish — an obscure dead language, and there are not many scholars in the world today capable of reading Babur's work in the original.
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		In leading his followers into northern India, he laid the groundwork for the Mughal Empire, one of the great Islamic powers of the early modern period - and it is this achievement that history primarily remembers him for.
		Yet the Baburnama shows that there is considerably more to the story than its conclusion.
		With unstinting and engaging honesty, Babur talks of his early struggles, his constant setbacks, and his lifelong desire to hold Samarkand, glorious seat of his ancestor Timur (Tamerlane).
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		The Baburnama Although Andijan has lately been in the news (NY Times, reg.
		Babur authored the Baburnama, often credited as the first Muslim autobiography and an endlessly entertaining read.
		The book's bloody-mindedness (Amazon's statistically improbably phrases include girth dagger, Uncle the Khan, and turn over the fortress) is leavened by a remarkably humane voice.
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	Indiaclub.com: Baburnama and Babur : History
		Baburnama is a fascinating autobiography of all time.
		Baburnama is not a mere personal record of events, it is history in its own way.
		Baburnama reflects the man who wrote it, besides depicting events pertaining to the whole of Asia Minor.
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	The Emperor Babur: Autobiography and Dialogue with History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As such, the Baburnama provides the perfect medium for testing the impact and the nature of imitation of the ghazi role models as present in Ghaznavid and later historical writings.
		A close look at the memoirs shows that so far as Babur was concerned, the ghazi space, as it were, was not purely Indian, and his role models were not only those who had fought in the subcontinent.
		There are hints in the Baburnama that there was always an awareness of a parallel world where warriors were engaging in ghaza.
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	Afghanland.com Afghanistan King Babur of Kabul
		This document, the Baburnama, is one of the earliest known autobiographical works in the Islamic world, and is perhaps the most detailed account of central Asian life of that period.
		But Bilah was on the right bank of Indus hence this hasty assumption does not coincide with the present location of Leiah (left bank), unless the river changed its course over centuries, a probability not recorded in history.
		Another glaring omission in Baburnama is a reference to Harrand Fort, an ancient citadel guarding the pass as the last frontier of Greek Bactrian empire.
	www.afghanland.com /history/babur.html (4587 words)

	Magazine JUL 2002: Moveable Type - Veni, Vidi, Vici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The rediscovery of the Baburnama is more or less contemporary with the invention of the modern, diesel-powered rath.
		A good travelogue must contain the following information, which the Baburnama delivers without fail: How to Get There (cross the Indus), Where to Stay (Agra is all right), What not to Eat (figs), How to Have Fun (eat ‘confection’ by the Yamuna), and How to Survive the Natives (various strategies, from cavalry charges to diplomacy).
		He used its structure and stylistics wonderfully in his first and greatly underrated novel, The Trotter-Nama (1988), a chronicle that traces the roots of an Anglo-Indian family to a French polymath.
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	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 225 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Responding to the current tsunami catastrophe, Dr. Ankur, director of NSD, announced in his inaugural address that all proceeds from the festival would be given to the Prime Minister Relief Fund.
		Based on the autobiography of the Mughal emperor Babar, Baburnama projects historical events till the year after Babur's death.
		A project of Japan Foundation Asia Centre (JFAC), the presentation of the play is inspired by the autobiography of the Emperor, but does not totally follow it.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/01/09/d50109140286.htm (381 words)

	The Baburnama -- Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor -- Wheeler M. Thackston
		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.
		The prose of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the first Mughal emperor, is described by its new translator Wheeler Thackston as frank, intimate, truthful, and unbiased.
		It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that the Baburnama is also the first real autobiography in Islamic literature.
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		The "Memoirs of Babur" or Baburnama are the work of the great-great-great-grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530).
		After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids, he ultimately sought greener pastures, first in Kabul and then in northern India, where his descendants were the Moghul (Mughal) dynasty ruling in Delhi until 1858.
		An elegantly produced modern translation is that by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Washington, D. C., etc., The Smithsonian Institution and Oxford University Press, 1996).
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	Political Issues - Babur kee aulad or the offspring of Babur - Ananthapuri Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This point is important to note: the part of the Memoir describing Babar's stay at Ayodhya is missing from all extant copies of the Baburnama.
		Thus, the claim made by some Secularist historians that the Baburnama does not record the destruction of the Ramjanmabhumi Temple is entirely fraudulent, as it is based on a non-existent source but other archaeological evidence confirms the temple destruction.
		The one nice aspect of Hindustan is it is a large country with lots of gold and money." All told, a reading of the Baburnama we come across a bigoted and cruel, animal.
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	Thackston, Wheeler M.; Thackston, Wheeler M.; Rushdie, Salman: The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thackston, Wheeler M.; Thackston, Wheeler M.; Rushdie, Salman: The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
		Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483-1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persia, Transoxiana, and India during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
		Babur's honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative.
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		The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
		The first autobiography in Islamic literature, the memoirs of the emperor Babur (1483-1530) offer a detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persia, Transoxiana, and India during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
		Book Description: Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
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	The Baburnama -- Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor -- Babur Wheeler M. Thackston Salman Rushdie
		The Baburnama -- Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor -- Babur Wheeler M. Thackston Salman Rushdie
		Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
		Babur’s chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative.
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		Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483-1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
		Babur's honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative - now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.
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		May 19, 2005 1:28 PM The Baburnama Although Andijan has lately been in the news (NY Times, reg.
		How can the Baburnama be the first Muslim autobiography in light of Al Munqidh min al-Dalal by Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad al-Tusi al-Ghazali, arguably the world's first recorded Gonzo stylist, more than 400 years previous?
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	Babur
		Babur's capture and loss of Samarkand (1501), according to the Baburnama
		We arranged a cease-fire, and around the second watch of the night we left through the Shaykhzada.
		This text is from Zahirddin Muhammad Babur Mirza, Baburnama, Part One: Fergana and Transoxiana, trans.
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