num_pages: 510
description: Babar was born in 1483 and died in 1530. His autobiography, a classic of Chaghatay Turkish literature, provides a vivid picture of the character and eventful career of a sophisticated and observant Central Asian warrior Prince, for before founding the Mughal Empire in India, its author had spent many years losing and winning a series of kingdoms in the area of modern Afghanistan and Soviet Central Asia. This is the standard edition of the Chaghatay text, consisting of a facsimile of the Haydarabad Codex, once in the possession of Sir Salar Jang, which is the best of the surviving MSS and seemingly the closest to Babar's own copy.
language: English
title: The Babar-Nama
titlecomplete: The Babar-Nama (Gibb Memorial Trust)
characters: Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur
genres: Biography, Asia, Memoir, Nonfiction, India, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, 16th Century, History
ratings_count: 683
publisher: Edinburgh University Press