One of the most important and strongest sources only second to Prof B F Manz s article in the Encyclopaedia of Islam is the article of Prof F Lehmann in the Encyclopaedia Iranica Referring to Babur he states His origin milieu training and culture were steeped in Persian culture and so Babor was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants the Mughals of India and for the expansion of Persian cultural infleunce in the Indian subcontinent with brilliant literary artistic and historiographical results PDF download