page_title: Chagatai people
hierarchical_section_title: Chagatai people
caption_attribution_description: English: The "Memoirs of Babur" or Baburnama are the work of the great-great-great-grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530). The Baburnama tells the tale of the prince's struggle first to assert and defend his claim to the throne of Samarkand and the region of the Fergana Valley. 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. The miniatures are from an illustrated copy of the Baburnama prepared for the author's grandson, the Mughal Emperor Akbar. It is worth remembering that the miniatures reflect the culture of the court at Delhi; hence, for example, the architecture of Central Asian cities resembles the architecture of Mughal India. Nonetheless, these illustrations are important as evidence of the tradition of exquisite miniature painting which developed at the court of Timur and his successors. Timurid miniatures are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Islamic world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Illustrations of Mughals from the Baburnama
context_page_description: The Chagatai are one of the Tājik people of Uzbekistan. The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in South-East Uzbekistan and in Southern Tajikistan. They numbered 63,500 in 1924-25. Together with the Kharduri, the Chagatai are one of the ethnographic groups of Tajiks who maintain a distinct identity. The origin of the people is unknown, although the name Chagatai is of Mongol origin, as Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan.
  The Turkic Chagatai language is not the language of the Chagatai Tajiks.
context_section_description: The Chagatai (also Chagatai Tajiks or Tajik Chagatai) are one of the Tājik people of Uzbekistan. The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in South-East Uzbekistan and in Southern Tajikistan. They numbered 63,500 in 1924-25. Together with the Kharduri, the Chagatai are one of the ethnographic groups of Tajiks who maintain a distinct identity. The origin of the people is unknown, although the name Chagatai is of Mongol origin, as Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan. 
  The Turkic Chagatai language is not the language of the Chagatai Tajiks.
caption: Baqi Beg Chaghtai, pays homage to Babur.
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