Babur - Wikipedia Babur Not to be confused with Babr or Babar. Babur Babur Badshah ظہیر الدین محمد بابر 1st Mughal emperor Reign 20 April 1526 -- 26 December 1530 Predecessor Ibrahim Lodhi ( as Sultan of Delhi ) Successor Humayun ( 1483 - 02 - 14 ) 14 February 1483 Andijan, Timurid Empire ( present - day Uzbekistan ) 26 December 1530 ( 1530 - 12 - 26 ) ( aged 47 ) Agra, Mughal Empire ( present - day India ) Burial Kabul, Mughal Empire ( present - day Afghanistan ) Spouse Aisha Sultan Begum Zainab Sultan Begum Maham Begum Masuma Sultan Begum Gulrukh Begum Dildar Begum Mubaraka Yusufzai Saliha Sultan Begum Gulnar Aghacha Nargul Aghacha Issue Humayun Kamran Mirza Askari Mirza Hindal Mirza Ahmad Mirza Shahrukh Masood Mirza Khalil Mirza Barbul Mirza Alwar Mirza Faruq Mirza Fakhr - un-Nissa Begum Ishan Daulat Begum Meher Jahan Begum Masuma Sultan Begum Gulzar Begum Gulrukh Begum Gulbadan Begum Gulchehra Begum Altun Bishik ( alleged ) Full name Zahir - ud - din Muhammad Babur House Timurid Father Umar Sheikh Mirza, ʿAmīr of Fergana Mother Qutlugh Nigar Khanum Religion Islam Campaigns of Babur 1st Samarkand 2nd Samarkand 3rd Samarkand Sar - e-Pul 4th Samarkand Akhsi Kabul Masudi Hazaras 1st India Qalat - e Ghilji 1st Turkomen Hazaras 2nd Turkomen Hazaras Ghilji 1st Kandahar 2nd Kandahar Eastern Afghanistan 2nd India Mohmand Mughal Rebellion Ab Darrah Kul Malek Ghazdewan Bajaur Pharwala Milwat Punjab Panipat Sambhal Bayana Gwalior Khanwa Chanderi Ghaghra Babur ( Persian : بابر ‎, translit. Bābur, lit. ' Tiger ' ‎ ; 14 February 1483 -- 26 December 1530 ), born Ẓahīr - ud - Dīn Muhammad ( Persian : ظهیرالدین محمد ‎, translit. Zahīr ad - Dīn Muhammad ‎ ), was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the base for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor. He was a direct descendant of Turco - Mongol conqueror Timur ( Tamurlane ) from the Barlas clan, through his father, and also a descendant of Genghis Khan through his mother. He was also influenced by the Persian culture and this affected both his own actions and those of his successors, giving rise to a significant expansion of the Persianate ethos in the Indian subcontinent. Babur was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza. He ascended the throne of Fergana in 1495 at the age of twelve and faced rebellion from his own relatives. He conquered Samarkand two years later, only to lose the city of Fergana soon after. In his attempt to reconquer Fergana, he lost control of Samarkand. In 1501, his attempt to recapture both cities went in vain as he was defeated by Muhammad Shaybani Khan. In 1504, he conquered Kabul, which was under the rule of the infant heir of Ulugh Begh. Babur formed a partnership with Safavid ruler Ismail I and reconquered parts of central Asia, including Samarkand, only to again lose it and the other newly conquered lands to the Uzbeks. After losing Samarkand for the third time, Babur turned his attention to creating his empire in north India. At that time, the Indo - Gangetic Plain of the northern Indian Subcontinent was ruled by Ibrahim Lodi of the Afghan Lodi dynasty, whereas Rajputana was ruled by a Hindu Rajput Confederacy, led by Rana Sanga of Mewar. In 1524, Daulat Khan Lodi, a rebel of the Lodhi dynasty, invited Babur to overthrow Ibrahim and become ruler. Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 and founded the Mughal empire. However, he again faced opposition, this time from Rana Sanga of Mewar who considered Babur a foreigner. The Rana was defeated in the Battle of Khanwa. Babur married several times. Notable among his sons are Humayun, Kamran Mirza and Hindal Mirza. Babur died in 1530 and was succeeded by Humayun. According to Babur 's wishes, he was buried in Bagh - e-Babur in Kabul, Afghanistan. Being a patrilineal descendant of Timur, Babur considered himself a Timurid and Turk, though Uzbek sources claim him as an ethnic Uzbek. He is considered a national hero in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Many of his poems also have become popular folk songs. He wrote his autobiography, Baburnama, in Chaghatai Turkic and this was translated into Persian during Akbar 's reign. Contents 1 Name 2 Background 3 Rule in Central Asia 3.1 As ruler of Fergana 3.2 At Kabul 4 Foreign relations 5 Formation of the Mughal Empire 5.1 First battle of Panipat 5.2 Battle of Khanwa 6 Personal life and relationships 7 Death and legacy 7.1 Babri Masjid 8 Notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Name Ẓahīr - ud - Dīn is Arabic for `` Defender of the Faith '' ( of Islam ), and Muhammad honours the Islamic prophet. The difficulty of pronouncing the name for his Central Asian Turco - Mongol army may have been responsible for the greater popularity of his nickname Babur, also variously spelled Baber, Babar, and Bābor. The name is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr, meaning `` tiger ''. The word repeatedly appears in Ferdowsi 's Shahnameh and was borrowed into the Turkic languages of Central Asia. Thackston argues for an alternate derivation from the PIE word `` beaver '', pointing to similarities between the pronunciation Bābor and the Russian bobr ( бобр, `` beaver '' ). Babur bore the royal titles Badshah and al - ṣultānu ' l - ʿazam wa ' l - ḫāqān al - mukkarram pādshāh - e ġāzī. He and later Mughal emperors used the title of mirza when they were princes ( see imperial and royal titles of the Mughal emperors ). Background Babur Family Tree 17th - century portrait of Babur Babur 's memoirs form the main source for details of his life. They are known as the Baburnama and were written in Chaghatai Turkic, his mother - tongue, though, according to Dale, `` his Turkic prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure, morphology or word formation and vocabulary. '' Baburnama was translated into Persian during the rule of Babur 's grandson Akbar. Babur was born on 14 February 1483 in the city of Andijan, Andijan Province, Fergana Valley, contemporary Uzbekistan. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, ruler of the Fergana Valley, the son of Abū Saʿīd Mirza ( and grandson of Miran Shah, who was himself son of Timur ) and his wife Qutlugh Nigar Khanum, daughter of Yunus Khan, the ruler of Moghulistan ( and great - great grandson of Tughlugh Timur, the son of Esen Buqa I, who was the great - great - great grandson of Chaghatai Khan, the second - born son of Genghis Khan ). Babur hailed from the Barlas tribe, which was of Mongol origin and had embraced Turkic and Persian culture. They had also converted to Islam centuries earlier and resided in Turkestan and Khorasan. Aside from the Chaghatai language, Babur was equally fluent in Persian, the lingua franca of the Timurid elite. Hence, Babur, though nominally a Mongol ( or Moghul in Persian language ), drew much of his support from the local Turkic and Iranian people of Central Asia, and his army was diverse in its ethnic makeup. It included Persians ( known to Babur as `` Sarts '' and `` Tajiks '' ), ethnic Afghans, Arabs, as well as Barlas and Chaghatayid Turko - Mongols from Central Asia. Rule in Central Asia As ruler of Fergana In 1494, at eleven years old, Babur became the ruler of Fergana, in present - day Uzbekistan, after Umar Sheikh Mirza died `` while tending pigeons in an ill - constructed dovecote that toppled into the ravine below the palace ''. During this time, two of his uncles from the neighbouring kingdoms, who were hostile to his father, and a group of nobles who wanted his younger brother Jahangir to be the ruler, threatened his succession to the throne. His uncles were relentless in their attempts to dislodge him from this position as well as from many of his other territorial possessions to come. Babur was able to secure his throne mainly because of help from his maternal grandmother, Aisan Daulat Begum, although there was also some luck involved. Most territories around his kingdom were ruled by his relatives, who were descendants of either Timur or Genghis Khan, and were constantly in conflict. At that time, rival princes were fighting over the city of Samarkand to the west, which was ruled by his paternal cousin. Babur had a great ambition to capture the city. In 1497 he besieged Samarkand for seven months before eventually gaining control over it. He was fifteen years old and for him the campaign was a huge achievement. Babur was able to hold the city despite desertions in his army, but he later fell seriously ill. Meanwhile, a rebellion back home, approximately 350 kilometres ( 220 mi ) away, amongst nobles who favoured his brother, robbed him of Fergana. As he was marching to recover it, he lost Samarkand to a rival prince, leaving him with neither. He had held Samarkand for 100 days, and he considered this defeat as his biggest loss, obsessing over it even later in his life after his conquests in India. In 1501, Babur laid siege to Samarkand once more, but was soon defeated by his most formidable rival, Muhammad Shaybani, Khan of the Uzbeks. Samarkand, his lifelong obsession, was lost again. He tried to reclaim Fergana but lost it too and escaping with a small band of followers, he wandered to the mountains of central Asia and took refuge with hill tribes. Thus, during the ten years since becoming the ruler of Fergana, Babur suffered many short - lived victories and was without shelter and in exile, aided by friends and peasants. He finally stayed in Tashkent, which was ruled by his maternal uncle. Babur wrote, `` During my stay in Tashkent, I endured much poverty and humiliation. No country, or hope of one ! '' For three years Babur concentrated on building up a strong army, recruiting widely amongst the Tajiks of Badakhshan in particular. By 1502, he had resigned all hopes of recovering Fergana ; he was left with nothing and was forced to try his luck someplace else. At Kabul Kabul was ruled by Ulugh Begh Mirza of the Arghun Dynasty, who died leaving only an infant as heir. The city was then claimed by Mukin Begh, who was considered to be a usurper and was opposed by the local populace. In 1504, Babur was able to cross the snowy Hindu Kush mountains and capture Kabul from the remaining Arghunids, who were forced to retreat to Kandahar. With this move, he gained a new kingdom, re-established his fortunes and would remain its ruler until 1526. In 1505, because of the low revenue generated by his new mountain kingdom, Babur began his first expedition to India ; in his memoirs, he wrote, `` My desire for Hindustan had been constant. It was in the month of Shaban, the Sun being in Aquarius, that we rode out of Kabul for Hindustan ''. It was a brief raid across the Khyber Pass. In the same year, Babur united with Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqarah of Herat, a fellow Timurid and distant relative, against their common enemy, the Uzbek Shaybani. However, this venture did not take place because Husayn Mirza died in 1506 and his two sons were reluctant to go to war. Babur instead stayed at Herat after being invited by the two Mirza brothers. It was then the cultural capital of the eastern Muslim world. Though he was disgusted by the vices and luxuries of the city, he marvelled at the intellectual abundance there, which he stated was `` filled with learned and matched men ''. He became acquainted with the work of the Chagatai poet Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, who encouraged the use of Chagatai as a literary language. Nava'i's proficiency with the language, which he is credited with founding, may have influenced Babur in his decision to use it for his memoirs. He spent two months there before being forced to leave because of diminishing resources ; it later was overrun by Shaybani and the Mirzas fled. Babur became the only reigning ruler of the Timurid dynasty after the loss of Herat, and many princes sought refuge from him at Kabul because of Shaybani 's invasion in the west. He thus assumed the title of Padshah ( emperor ) among the Timurids -- though this tile was insignificant since most of his ancestral lands were taken, Kabul itself was in danger and Shaybani continued to be a threat. Babur prevailed during a potential rebellion in Kabul, but two years later a revolt among some of his leading generals drove him out of Kabul. Escaping with very few companions, Babur soon returned to the city, capturing Kabul again and regaining the allegiance of the rebels. Meanwhile, Shaybani was defeated and killed by Ismail I, Shah of Shia Safavid Persia, in 1510. Babur and the remaining Timurids used this opportunity to reconquer their ancestral territories. Over the following few years, Babur and Shah Ismail formed a partnership in an attempt to take over parts of Central Asia. In return for Ismail 's assistance, Babur permitted the Safavids to act as a suzerain over him and his followers. Thus, in 1513, after leaving his brother Nasir Mirza to rule Kabul, he managed to take Samarkand for the third time ; he also took Bokhara but lost both again to the Uzbeks. Shah Ismail reunited Babur with his sister Khānzāda, who had been imprisoned by and forced to marry the recently deceased Shaybani. Babur returned to Kabul after three years in 1514. The following 11 years of his rule mainly involved dealing with relatively insignificant rebellions from Afghan tribes, his nobles and relatives, in addition to conducting raids across the eastern mountains. Babur began to modernise and train his army despite it being, for him, relatively peaceful times. Foreign relations Mughal emperors Babur 1526 -- 1530 Humayun 1530 -- 1540 1555 -- 1556 Akbar 1556 -- 1605 Jahangir 1605 -- 1627 Shahryar ( de facto ) 1627 -- 1628 Shah Jahan 1628 -- 1658 Aurangzeb 1658 -- 1707 Muhammad Azam Shah ( titular ) 1707 Bahadur Shah I 1707 -- 1712 Jahandar Shah 1712 -- 1713 Farrukhsiyar 1713 -- 1719 Rafi ud - Darajat 1719 Shah Jahan II 1719 Muhammad Shah 1719 -- 1748 Ahmad Shah Bahadur 1748 -- 1754 Alamgir II 1754 -- 1759 Shah Jahan III ( titular ) 1759 -- 1760 Shah Alam II 1760 -- 1806 Jahan Shah IV ( titular ) 1788 Akbar II 1806 -- 1837 Bahadur Shah II 1837 -- 1857 The meeting between Babur and Ali Mirza Safavi near Samarkand Babur began relations with the Safavids when he met Ali Mirza Safavi at Samarkand ; their good relations lasted even after Babur was approached by the Ottomans. The Safavids army led by Najm - e Sani massacred civilians in Central Asia and then sought the assistance of Babur, who advised the Safavids to withdraw. The Safavids, however, refused and were defeated during the Battle of Ghazdewan by the warlord Ubaydullah Khan. Babur 's early relations with the Ottomans were poor because the Ottoman Sultan Selim I provided his rival Ubaydullah Khan with powerful matchlocks and cannons. In 1507, when ordered to accept Selim I as his rightful suzerain, Babur refused and gathered Qizilbash servicemen in order to counter the forces of Ubaydullah Khan during the Battle of Ghazdewan. In 1513, Selim I reconciled with Babur ( fearing that he would join the Safavids ), dispatched Ustad Ali Quli the artilleryman and Mustafa Rumi the matchlock marksman, and many other Ottoman Turks, in order to assist Babur in his conquests ; this particular assistance proved to be the basis of future Mughal - Ottoman relations. From them, he also adopted the tactic of using matchlocks and cannons in field ( rather than only in sieges ), which would give him an important advantage in India. Formation of the Mughal empire Main articles : Lodi dynasty, Delhi Sultanate, and Siege of Kabul ( 1504 ) Babur 's coin, based on Bahlol Lodhi 's standard, Qila Agra, AH 936 Babur still wanted to escape from the Uzbeks, and he chose India as a refuge instead of Badakhshan, which was to the north of Kabul. He wrote, `` In the presence of such power and potency, we had to think of some place for ourselves and, at this crisis and in the crack of time there was, put a wider space between us and the strong foeman. '' After his third loss of Samarkand, Babur gave full attention to the conquest of North India, launching a campaign ; he reached Chenab, now in Pakistan, in 1519. Until 1524, his aim was to only expand his rule to Punjab, mainly to fulfill the legacy of his ancestor Timur, since it used to be part of his empire. At the time parts of north India were under the rule of Ibrahim Lodi of the Lodi dynasty, but the empire was crumbling and there were many defectors. He received invitations from Daulat Khan Lodi, Governor of Punjab and Ala - ud - Din, uncle of Ibrahim. He sent an ambassador to Ibrahim, claiming himself the rightful heir to the throne, but the ambassador was detained at Lahore and released months later. Babur started for Lahore, Punjab, in 1524 but found that Daulat Khan Lodi had been driven out by forces sent by Ibrahim Lodi. When Babur arrived at Lahore, the Lodi army marched out and his army was routed. In response, Babur burned Lahore for two days, then marched to Dipalpur, placing Alam Khan, another rebel uncle of Lodi, as governor. Alam Khan was quickly overthrown and fled to Kabul. In response, Babur supplied Alam Khan with troops who later joined up with Daulat Khan Lodi, and together with about 30,000 troops, they besieged Ibrahim Lodi at Delhi. He easily defeated and drove off Alam 's army and Babur realised Lodi would not allow him to occupy the Punjab. First Battle of Panipat Main article : Battle of Panipat ( 1526 ) Mughal artillery and troops in action during the Battle of Panipat ( 1526 ) In November 1525 Babur got news at Peshawar that Daulat Khan Lodi had switched sides, and he drove out Ala - ud - Din. Babur then marched onto Lahore to confront Daulat Khan Lodi, only to see Daulat 's army melt away at their approach. Daulat surrendered and was pardoned. Thus within three weeks of crossing the Indus River Babur had become the master of Punjab. Babur marched on to Delhi via Sirhind. He reached Panipat on 20 April 1526 and there met Ibrahim Lodi 's numerically superior army of about 100,000 soldiers and 100 elephants. In the battle that began on the following day, Babur used the tactic of Tulugma, encircling Ibrahim Lodi 's army and forcing it to face artillery fire directly, as well as frightening its war elephants. Ibrahim Lodi died during the battle, thus ending the Lodi dynasty. Babur wrote in his memoirs about his victory : By the grace of the Almighty God, this difficult task was made easy to me and that mighty army, in the space of a half a day was laid in dust. After the battle, Babur occupied Delhi and Agra, took the throne of Lodi, and laid the foundation for the eventual rise of Mughal rule in India. However, before he became North India 's ruler, he had to fend off challengers, such as Rana Sanga. Battle of Khanwa Main article : Battle of Khanwa Babur and the Mughal army at the Urvah valley in Gwalior. The Battle of Khanwa was fought between Babur and the Rajput ruler Rana Sanga on 17 March 1527. Rana Sanga wanted to overthrow Babur, whom he considered to be a foreigner ruling in India, and also to extend the Rajput territories by annexing Delhi and Agra. He was supported by Afghan chiefs who felt Babur had been deceptive by refusing to fulfill promises made to them. Upon receiving news of Rana Sangha 's advance towards Agra, Babur took a defensive position at Khanwa ( currently in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ), from where he hoped to launch a counterattack later. According to K.V. Krishna Rao, Babur won the battle because of his `` superior generalship '' and modern tactics : the battle was one of the first in India that featured cannons. Rao also notes that Rana Sanga faced `` treachery '' when a Silhadi man converted to Islam and joined Babur 's army with a garrison of 6,000 soldiers. Personal life and relationships There are no descriptions about Babur 's physical appearance, except from the paintings in the translation of the Baburnama prepared during the reign of Akbar. In his autobiography, Babur claimed to be strong and physically fit, and claimed to have swum across every major river he encountered, including twice across the Ganges River in North India. Unlike his father, he had ascetic tendencies and did not have any great interest in women. In his first marriage, he was `` bashful '' towards Aisha Sultan Begum, later losing his affection for her. However, he acquired several more wives and concubines over the years, and as required for a prince, he was able to ensure the continuity of his line ; Babur treated them and his other women relatives well. In his memoirs, there is a mention of his infatuation for a younger boy when Babur was 16 years old. According to the historian Abraham Eraly, bisexuality was common and pederasty high fashion among the central Asian aristocrats of the time. Babur crossing the Indus River Babur 's first wife, Aisha Sultan Begum, was his paternal cousin, the daughter of Sultan Ahmad Mirza, his father 's brother. She was an infant when betrothed to Babur, who was himself five years old. They married eleven years later, c. 1498 -- 99. The couple had one daughter, Fakhr - un-Nissa, who died within a year in 1500. Three years later, after Babur 's first defeat at Fergana, Aisha left him and returned to her father 's household. In 1504, Babur married Zaynab Sultan Begum, who died childless within two years. In the period 1506 -- 08, Babur married four women, Maham Begum ( in 1506 ), Masuma Sultan Begum, Gulrukh Begum and Dildar Begum. Babur had four children by Maham Begum, of whom only one survived infancy. This was his eldest son and heir, Humayun. Masuma Sultan Begum died during childbirth ; the year of her death is disputed ( either 1508 or 1519 ). Gulrukh bore Babur two sons, Kamran and Askari, and Dildar Begum was the mother of Babur 's youngest son, Hindal. Babur later married Mubaraka Yusufzai, a Pashtun woman of the Yusufzai tribe. Gulnar Aghacha and Nargul Aghacha were two Circassian slaves given to Babur as gifts by Tahmasp Shah Safavi, the Shah of Persia. They became `` recognized ladies of the royal household. '' During his rule in Kabul, when there was a time of relative peace, Babur pursued his interests in literature, art, music and gardening. Previously, he never drank alcohol and avoided it when he was in Herat. In Kabul, he first tasted it at the age of thirty. He then began to drink regularly, host wine parties and consume preparations made from opium. Though religion had a central place in his life, Babur also approvingly quoted a line of poetry by one of his contemporaries : `` I am drunk, officer. Punish me when I am sober ''. He quit drinking for health reasons before the Battle of Khanwa, just two years before his death, and demanded that his court do the same. But he did not stop chewing narcotic preparations, and did not lose his sense of irony. He wrote, `` Everyone regrets drinking and swears an oath ( of abstinence ) ; I swore the oath and regret that. '' Death and legacy Babur died at the age of 47 on 5 January ( O.S. 26 December 1530 ) 1531 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Humayun Babur and his heir Humayun After death, his body was moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, where it lies in Bagh - e Babur ( Babur Gardens ). It is generally agreed that, as a Timurid, Babur was not only significantly influenced by the Persian culture, but that his empire also gave rise to the expansion of the Persianate ethos in the Indian subcontinent. For example, F. Lehmann states in the Encyclopædia Iranica : His origin, milieu, training, and culture were steeped in Persian culture and so Babur was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, the Mughals of India, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results. Although all applications of modern Central Asian ethnicities to people of Babur 's time are anachronistic, Soviet and Uzbek sources regard Babur as an ethnic Uzbek. At the same time, during the Soviet Union Uzbek scholars were censored for idealising and praising Babur and other historical figures such as Ali - Shir Nava'i. The tomb of the first Mughal Emperor Babur in Kabul Babur is considered a national hero in Uzbekistan. On 14 February 2008, stamps in his name were issued in the country to commemorate his 525th birth anniversary. Many of Babur 's poems have become popular Uzbek folk songs, especially by Sherali Jo'rayev. Some sources claim that Babur is a national hero in Kyrgyzstan too. In October 2005, Pakistan developed the Babur Cruise Missile, named in his honour. One of the enduring features of Babur 's life was that he left behind the lively and well - written autobiography known as Baburnama. Quoting Henry Beveridge, Stanley Lane - Poole writes : His autobiography is one of those priceless records which are for all time, and is fit to rank with the confessions of St. Augustine and Rousseau, and the memoirs of Gibbon and Newton. In Asia it stands almost alone. In his own words, `` The cream of my testimony is this, do nothing against your brothers even though they may deserve it. '' Also, `` The new year, the spring, the wine and the beloved are joyful. Babur make merry, for the world will not be there for you a second time. '' Tombstone of Babur in Bagh - e Babur Babri Masjid Babri Masjid ( `` Babur 's Mosque '' ) in Ayodhya, India was constructed on the orders of Mir Baqi, one of Babur 's generals who led forces sent to the region during his reign. In 2003, by the order of an Indian Court, the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ) was asked to conduct a more indepth study and an excavation to ascertain the type of structure that was beneath the mosque. The excavation was conducted from 12 March 2003 to 7 August 2003, resulting in 1360 discoveries. The ASI submitted its report to the Allahabad high court. The summary of the ASI report indicated the presence of a 10th - century temple under the mosque. According to the ASI team, the human activity at the site dates back to the 13th century BCE. The next few layers date back to the Shunga period ( second - first century BCE ) and the Kushan period. During the early medieval period ( 11 -- 12th century CE ), a huge but short - lived structure of nearly 50 metres north - south orientation was constructed. On the remains of this structure, another massive structure was constructed : this structure had at least three structural phases and three successive floors attached with it. The report concluded that it was over the top of this construction that the disputed structure was constructed during the early 16th century. Notes Jump up ^ Christine Isom - Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel, ( I.B. Tauris, 2013 ), 58. ^ Jump up to : EB ( 1878 ). ^ Jump up to : Dale, Stephen Frederic ( 2004 ). The garden of the eight paradises : Bābur and the culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India ( 1483 -- 1530 ). Brill. pp. 15, 150. ISBN 90 - 04 - 13707 - 6. ^ Jump up to : F. Lehmann : Ẓahīr - al - Dīn Moḥammad Bābor. In Encyclopædia Iranica. Online Ed. December 1988 ( updated August 2011 ). `` Bābor, Ẓahīr - al - Dīn Moḥammad ( 6 Moḥarram 886 - 6 Jomādā I 937 / 14 February 1483 -- 26 December 1530 ), Timurid prince, military genius, and literary craftsman who escaped the bloody political arena of his Central Asian birthplace to found the Mughal Empire in India. His origin, milieu, training, and education were steeped in Persian culture and so Bābor was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, the Mughals of India, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results. '' ^ Jump up to : Robert L. Canfield, Robert L. ( 1991 ). Turko - Persia in historical perspective, Cambridge University Press, p. 20. `` The Mughals - Persianized Turks who invaded from Central Asia and claimed descent from both Timur and Genghis -- strengthened the Persianate culture of Muslim India ''. ^ Jump up to : Eraly 2007, pp. 18 -- 20. ^ Jump up to : EB ( 1911 ). Jump up ^ Thumb, Albert, Handbuch des Sanskrit, mit Texten und Glossar, German original, ed. C. Winter, 1953, Snippet, p. 318 ^ Jump up to : Babur, Emperor of Hindustan ( 2002 ). The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. translated, edited and annotated by W.M. Thackston. Modern Library. ISBN 0 - 375 - 76137 - 3. ^ Jump up to : Dilip Hiro ( 2006 ). Babur Nama : Journal of Emperor Babur. Mumbai : Penguin Books India. p. xviii. ISBN 978 - 0 - 14 - 400149 - 1. Jump up ^ `` Mirza Muhammad Haidar ''. Silk Road Seattle. University of Washington. Retrieved 2006 - 11 - 07. On the occasion of the birth of Babar Padishah ( the son of Omar Shaikh ) Jump up ^ Babur. Babur Nama. Penguin Books. p. vii. ISBN 978 - 0 - 14 - 400149 - 1. Jump up ^ `` Bābur ( Mughal emperor ) ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 August 2016. ^ Jump up to : Lehmann, F. `` Memoirs of Zehīr - ed - Dīn Muhammed Bābur ''. Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2008 - 04 - 02. Jump up ^ `` Iran : The Timurids and Turkmen ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 August 2016. Jump up ^ Manz, Beatrice Forbes ( 1994 ). `` The Symbiosis of Turk and Tajik ''. Central Asia in Historical Perspective. Boulder, Colorado & Oxford. p. 58. ISBN 0 - 8133 - 3638 - 4. Jump up ^ `` Babu, the first Moghul emperor : Wine and tulips in Kabul ''. The Economist. 16 December 2010. pp. 80 -- 82. Retrieved 12 June 2015. Jump up ^ Lal, Ruby ( 25 September 2005 ). Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World. p. 69. ISBN 0 - 521 - 85022 - 3. It was over these possessions, provinces controlled by uncles, or cousins of varying degrees, that Babur fought with close and distant relatives for much of his life. ^ Jump up to : Ewans, Martin ( September 2002 ). Afghanistan : A Short History of Its People and Politics. HarperCollins. pp. 26 -- 27. ISBN 0 - 06 - 050508 - 7. Babur, while still in his teens, conceived the ambition of conquering Samarkand. In 1497, after a seven months ' siege, he took the city, but his supporters gradually deserted him and Ferghana was taken from him in his absence. Within a few months he was compelled to retire from Samarkand... Eventually he retook Samarkand, but was again forced out, this time by an Usbek leader, Shaibani Khan... Babur decided in 1504 to trek over the Hindu Kush to Kabul, where the current ruler promptly retreated to Kandahar and left him in undisputed control of the city. Jump up ^ `` The Memoirs of Babur ''. Silk Road Seattle. University of Washington. Retrieved 2006 - 11 - 08. After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids... ^ Jump up to : Eraly 2007, pp. 21 -- 23. ^ Jump up to : Mahajan, V.D. ( 2007 ). History of medieval India ( 10th ed. ). New Delhi : S Chand. pp. 428 -- 29. ISBN 81 - 219 - 0364 - 5. ^ Jump up to : Brend, Barbara ( 20 December 2002 ). Perspectives on Persian Painting : Illustrations to Amir Khusrau 's Khamsah. Routledge ( UK ). p. 188. ISBN 0 - 7007 - 1467 - 7. ^ Jump up to : Eraly 2007, pp. 24 -- 26. Jump up ^ Lamb, Christina ( February 2004 ). The Sewing Circles of Herat : A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan. HarperCollins. p. 153. ISBN 0 - 06 - 050527 - 3. Jump up ^ Hickmann, William C. ( 19 October 1992 ). 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Āisha Sultan Begum, the daughter of Sultan Ahmed Mirza, to whom I had been betrothed in the lifetime of my father and uncle, having arrived in Khujand, I now married her, in the month of Shābān. In the first period of my being a married man, though I had no small affection for her, yet, from modesty and bashfulness, I went to her only once in ten, fifteen, or twenty days. My affection afterwards declined, and my shyness increased ; in so much, that my mother the Khanum, used to fall upon me and scold me with great fury, sending me off like a criminal to visit her once in a month or forty days. Jump up ^ Eraly 2007, p. 12. ^ Jump up to : Babur ; Dilip Hiro. `` Babur 's wives and children ''. In Dilip Hiro. Babur Nama : Journal of Emperor Babur ( 2006 ed. ). Penguin. p. 362. ISBN 978 - 0 - 14 - 400149 - 1. Jump up ^ Pope, Hugh ( 2005 ). Sons of the Conquerors, Overlook Duckworth, pp. 234 -- 35. Jump up ^ Mahajan, V.D. ( 2007 ). History of medieval India ( 10th ed. ). 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Gascoigne, Bamber The Great Moghuls ( London ) 1971. ( Last revised 1987 ) Gommans, Jos Mughal Warfare ( London ) 2002 Gordon, Stewart. When Asia was the World : Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks who created the `` Riches of the East '' Da Capo Press, Perseus Books, 2008. ISBN 0 - 306 - 81556 - 7. Hasan, Mohibbul ( 1985 ). Babur : Founder of the Mughal Empire in India. New Delhi : Manohar Publications. Irvine, William The Army of the Indian Moghuls. ( London ) 1902. ( Last revised 1985 ) Jackson, Peter The Delhi Sultanate. A Political and Military History ( Cambridge ) 1999 Richards, John F. The Mughal Empire ( Cambridge ) 1993 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Babur. Works by Babur at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Babur at Internet Archive Works by or about Babur in libraries ( WorldCat catalog ) Babur Timurid Dynasty Born : 14 February 1483 Died : 26 December 1530 Regnal titles New title Dynasty founded Mughal Emperor 20 April 1526 -- 26 December 1530 Succeeded by Humayun Mughal Empire Emperors Babur Humayun Akbar Jahangir Shah Jahan Aurangzeb ( Alamgir ) Muhammad Azam Shah Bahadur Shah I Jahandar Shah Farrukhsiyar Rafi ud - Darajat Shah Jahan II Muhammad Shah Ahmad Shah Bahadur Alamgir II Shah Jahan III Shah Alam II Akbar II Bahadur Shah II Battles and conflicts Battle of Panipat ( 1526 ) Gujarat conquest Battle of Khanwa Battle of Ghaghra Siege of Sambhal Battle of Panipat ( 1556 ) Battle of Thanesar Siege of Chittorgarh Siege of Ranthambore Battle of Tukaroi Battle of Raj Mahal Battle of Haldighati Battle of Bhuchar Mori Siege of Kandahar Mughal -- Safavid War ( 1622 -- 23 ) Siege of Orchha Mughal -- Safavid War ( 1649 -- 53 ) Battle of Samugarh Battle of Khajwa Suppression of Tilpat rebellion Ahom -- Mughal conflicts Siege of Purandhar Tibet -- Ladakh -- Mughal War Mughal -- Maratha Wars Siege of Bijapur Siege of Jinji Child 's War Siege of Golconda Battle of Karnal Third Battle of Panipat Battle of Buxar Siege of Delhi Architecture Taj Mahal Gardens of Babur Fatehpur Sikri Tomb of Salim Chishti Humayun 's Tomb Red Fort Lahore Fort Jahangir Mahal Lalbagh Fort Akbar 's Tomb Agra Fort Chawk Mosque Shalimar Gardens Achabal Gardens Jahangir 's Tomb Bibi Ka Maqbara Badshahi Mosque Shahi Bridge Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta Sheesh Mahal Sunehri Masjid Tipu Sultan Mosque Wazir Khan Mosque more Adversaries Ibrahim Lodi Rana Sanga Sher Shah Suri Hemu Maharana Pratap Malik Ambar Gokula Pratapaditya Shivaji Lachit Borphukan Khushal Khattak Sir Josiah Child Guru Gobind Singh Henry Every Bajirao I Nader Shah Hector Munro Provinces Bengal Subah Gujarat Subah See also Art Cuisine Culture Flag Gardens Language Military Painting Persians Tribe Weapons Timurid dynasty family tree Successor states Maratha Empire Rajput states Jats Sikh Empire Nawabs of Bengal Awadh Nizam of Hyderabad Carnatic Kingdom of Mysore Rohilkhand VIAF : 97090468 LCCN : n50053659 ISNI : 0000 0001 0845 1285 GND : 118841807 SUDOC : 026699494 BNF : cb11889779q ( data ) ULAN : 500212753 NDL : 00709319 IATH : w6pd0tfx Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babur&oldid=807012947 '' Categories : Babur 1483 births 1530 deaths 1530 in India Descendants of Genghis Khan Timurid dynasty Hidden categories : CS1 Russian - language sources ( ru ) CS1 Uzbek - language sources ( uz ) Use Indian English from July 2016 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from June 2015 Articles containing Persian - language text Articles containing Russian - language text All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July 2016 Wikipedia articles needing clarification from June 2015 Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from EB9 Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with Internet Archive links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Asturianu Azərbaycanca বাংলা Bân - lâm - gú Башҡортса Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ भोजपुरी Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français ગુજરાતી गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Íslenska Italiano עברית ಕನ್ನಡ ქართული Қазақша Кыргызча Latviešu Lietuvių Magyar Malagasy മലയാളം मराठी مصرى Bahasa Melayu Nederlands नेपाली 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Occitan Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی پښتو Polski Português Qaraqalpaqsha Română Русский संस्कृतम् Scots Simple English سنڌي Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska தமிழ் Татарча / tatarça తెలుగు ไทย Türkçe Türkmençe Українська اردو ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 25 October 2017, at 11 : 28. 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Question: what was the mother tongue of the mughals
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