![]() ![]() (Stay up to date on new book releases, reviews, and more with The Hindu On Books newsletter.īabur describes these decades of his life in an unemotional and direct way: he hardly valorises his own achievements. The young Babur struggled to hold on to his inheritance, losing several battles, including one in Ferghana, which he had to give up to the victor. His autobiography begins with a description of the geography and tells us that his father, Umar Shaikh Mirza, died in an accident when he was 39 and Babur 12. Babur was from a family of minor nobles who had inherited the governorship of Ferghana. The Timurids had a tradition of poetry, hawking, music, and, of course, war. ![]() Babur describes his maternal uncles in his memoir. His mother came from the nomadic Mongols, who weren’t literate. This was his father’s ancestral family, which was Timurid. Babur came from two different cultures, of which one was literate and aspired to high culture. It is the first autobiography from the subcontinent and one of the first in the world. Babur’s memoir did not have a name but is referred to as ![]()
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