Babur Nama

"The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (A.D. 1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Against the turbulent backdrop of medieval history, it paints a precise and vivid picture of life in Central Asia and Afghanistan - where Babur ruled in Samarkand and Kabul - and in the Indian subcontinent, where his dazzling military career culminated in the founding of a dynasty that lasted three centuries." "Babur was far more than a skilled, often ruthless, warrior and master strategist. In this abridged and edited version of a 1921 English translation of his memoirs, he also emerges as a sensitive aesthete, naturalist, poet and lover. Writer, journalist and internationally acclaimed Middle Eastern and Central Asian expert Dilip Hiro breathes new life into a unique historical document that is at once objective and intensely personal - for, in Babur's words, 'the truth should be reached in every matter'."--BOOK JACKET.Beveridge, Annette S. is the author of 'Babur Nama ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780144001491 and ISBN 0144001497.