Babur

This book is a concise biography of Babur who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. Based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse it chronicles the life and career of a Central Asian Turco-Mongol Muslim who driven from his homeland by Uzbeks in 1504 ruled Kabul for two decades before invading Hindustan in 1526. It offers a revealing portrait of Baburs Perso-Islamic culture Timurid imperial ambition and turbulent emotional life. It is above all a humanistic portrait of an individual who even as he triumphed in South Asia suffered the regretful anguish of an exile who felt himself to be a stranger in a strange land.