An edition of Bāburnāmah (1857)

The Baburnama

memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor

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An edition of Bāburnāmah (1857)

The Baburnama

memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor

  • 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 18 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Both an official chronicle and a highly personal memoir, the Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Central Asia and India during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is also the text most often quoted by historians and scholars of Mughal India. The prose of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the first Mughal emperor, is described by its new translator Wheeler Thackston as frank, intimate, truthful, and unbiased.

It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that the Baburnama is also the first real autobiography in Islamic literature. Babur had no historical precedent for his narrative, yet even today it is a remarkably engrossing volume to read.

  1. The interests that Babur expressed so eloquently in the memoirs - his profound curiosity about the natural world and human personalities, for example - defined also the directions that artists were to take. Dr. Thackston's translation provides many new insights into a particularly stimulating period in the world's history.

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Cover of: Babarī nizām
Babarī nizām
2004, Dānish Khprandwiyah Ṭolanah
in Pashto
Cover of: The Baburnama
The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor
1996, Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published in association with Oxford University Press, New York.
Maps on lining papers.

Published in
Washington, D.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
954.02/5
Library of Congress
DS461.1 .B23213 1995, DS461.1.B23213 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
472 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
472

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1111677M
Internet Archive
baburnamamemoirs0000babu_f3b3
ISBN 10
0195096711
LCCN
94037499
OCLC/WorldCat
31239356
Library Thing
285137
Goodreads
1724469

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Memoirs of Babur, Emperor of India.

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