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The Bābur-nāma in English

(Memoirs of Bābur)
Translated from the original Turki Text
OF
Z̤ahiru’d-dīn Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh Ghāzī

BY
ANNETTE SUSANNAH BEVERIDGE


First Printed 1922

This work
is dedicate to
Bābur’s
fame.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: Introductory.—Cap. I. Babur’s exemplars in theArts of peace, p. xxvii.—Cap. II. Problems of the mutilatedBabur-nama, p. xxxi.—Cap. III. The Turki MSS. andwork connecting with them, p. xxxviii.—Cap. IV.The Leyden and Erskine “Memoirs of Baber”, p. lvii.—Postscriptof Thanks, p. lx.

 
SECTION I.—FARGHĀNA 

899 AH.—Oct. 12th 1493 to Oct. 2nd 1494 AD.—Bābur’s age atthe date of his accession—Description of Farghāna(pp. 1 to 12)—Death and biography of ‘Umar Shaikh(13 to 19 and 24 to 28)—Biography of Yūnas Chaghatāī(18 to 24)—Bābur’s uncles Aḥmad Mīrān-shāhī andMaḥmūd Chaghatāī (The Khān) invade Farghāna—Deathand biography of Aḥmad—Misdoings of his successor, hisbrother Maḥmūd

1-42

900 AH.—Oct. 2nd 1494 to Sep. 21st 1495 AD.—Invasion ofFarghāna continued—Bābur’s adoption of orthodoxobservance—Death and biography of Maḥmūd Mīrān-shāhī—Samarkandaffairs—revolt of Ibrāhīm Sārū defeated—Bāburvisits The Khān in Tāshkīnt—tribute collected fromthe Jīgrak tribe—expedition into Aūrātīpā

43-56

901 AH.—Sep. 21st 1495 to Sep. 9th 1496 AD.—Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’scampaign against Khusrau Shāh—Bābur receivesAūzbeg sult̤āns—Revolt of the Tarkhāns in Samarkand—Bābur’sfirst move for Samarkand

57-64

902 AH.—Sep. 9th 1496 to Aug. 30th 1497 AD.—Bābur’s secondmove for Samarkand—Dissensions of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā andhis sons—Dissensions between Khusrau Shāh and Mas‘ūdMīrān-shāhī

65-71

903 AH.—Aug. 30th 1497 to Aug. 19th 1498 AD.—Bābur’ssecond attempt on Samarkand is successful—Descriptionof Samarkand (pp. 74 to 86)—his action there—Mughūlsdemand and besiege Andijān for Bābur’s half-brotherJahāngīr—his mother and friends entreat his help—heleaves Samarkand in his cousin ‘Alī’s hands—has a relapseof illness on the road and is believed dying—on the newsAndijān is surrendered

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