Letters Of Babur Analysis

Tuzk-e-Babri with literal meaning “Letters of Babur” or “Book of Babur” is the autobiography of the first mughal emperor Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), who was a conqueror from Central Asia and founded the Mughal dynasty. Through his father Babur was a direct descendant of Timur, and also Genghis Khan’s descendant through his mother. He was a very well mannered and religious man who not only wrote high quality poetry but also possessed a vast knowledge about the culture, natural history and physical features of Central Asia and India. As a warrior Babur was very courageous, brave yet cruel and ignorant. His inquisitive and observant mind and literary mastery add a higher dimension to the battles and body counts of his memoirs.
Baburnama

There was no such ritual for sovereign memoirs; in Babur’s time although historical accounts were popular in the Islamic world. Baburnama is direct, cheerful and distinctive. Babur begins the story when he inherited the throne at the age of twelve and ends in mid-sentence in September, 1529, a year before his death. Babur began with the simple words in June 1494 AD, “In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate. In the month of Ramadan of the year 899 and in the 12th year of my age, I became ruler in the land of Fergana.” Babur also writes about the geography of his homeland, Fergana. “The Domain of Fergana has seven towns, five on the south and two on the north of the Syr river. Of those on the south, one is Andijan. It has a central position and is the capital of the Fergana Domain”. By describing the geography of Fergana and giving some background history, he then describes his unstable luck as a minor ruler in Central Asia. His political and military power began by claiming to the throne of Samarkand, now known as Uzbekistan, and taking control over the region around the fertile Fergana Valley. Seven years later Babur was driven out of Samarkand, but he had more far-reaching ambitions. From his new powerbase at Kabul in modern-day Afghanistan, he set out to conquer the Sultanate of Delhi. In 1526 he defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat and founded the Mughal dynasty. Covering the battle

It also gives detailed geographical description and the nature of the country, its animals and birds, flowers and trees. The Tuzk-e-Babri reveals Babur as one intensely found of the beauties. Of nature and adorned with essentially human virtues and faults. Baburnama is considered to be one of the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all time. The Tuzk-e-Babri or the Memoirs of Babur is a first-rate authority on his history of the age. Unfortunately, it is not complete and all the known copies have three gaps – from 1508 to 1519, from 1520 to 1525, and from 1529 to 1530. Topics that have been debated on by the Emperor Babur and illustrated in this manuscript include Hindu ascetics at Bagram (today in Afghanistan); the elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo; the peacock, parrot, and stork; the water-hog, and crocodile; trees and shrubs such as the plantain, tamarind, and oleander; and the author supervising work on his own gardens in Kabul. Babur also provides what is probably the first reliable record of the famous diamond known as Koh-i-Noor, the ‘Mountain of