Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44608-h.htm or 44608-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44608/44608-h/44608-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44608/44608-h.zip) +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Many Turki, Arabic and Persian names have various spellings | | in the text. There are about 700 occurrences of hyphenated | | unhyphenated and spaced words. Correcting those for the | | sake of consistency would be risky in many cases and would | | mean a major change in the printed text which already has | | many typographical errors. | | | | Two wide tables have been split into narrower sections. | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ THE BĀBUR-NĀMA IN ENGLISH (MEMOIRS OF BĀBUR). Translated from the original Turki Text of Z̤ahiru'd-dīn Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh _Ghāzī_ by Annette Susannah Beveridge First Printed 1922 [Illustration: _This work is dedicate to Bābur's fame._] TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE: Introductory.—Cap. I. Babur's exemplars in the Arts of peace, p. xxvii.—Cap. II. Problems of the mutilated Babur-nama, p. xxxi.—Cap. III. The Turki MSS. and work connecting with them, p. xxxviii.—Cap. IV. The Leyden and Erskine "Memoirs of Baber", p. lvii.—Postscript of Thanks, p. lx. SECTION I.—FARGHĀNA 899 AH.—Oct. 12th 1493 to Oct. 2nd 1494 AD.—Bābur's age at the date of his accession—+Description of Farghāna+ (pp. 1 to 12)—Death and biography of `Umar Shaikh (13 to 19 and 24 to 28)—Biography of Yūnas _Chaghatāī_ (18 to 24)—Bābur's uncles Aḥmad _Mīrān-shāhī_ and Maḥmūd _Chaghatāī_ (The Khān) invade Farghāna—Death and biography of Aḥmad—Misdoings of his successor, his brother Maḥmūd 1-42 900 AH.—Oct. 2nd 1494 to Sep. 21st 1495 AD.—Invasion of Farghāna continued—Bābur's adoption of orthodox observance—Death and biography of Maḥmūd _Mīrān-shāhī_—Samarkand affairs—revolt of Ibrāhīm _Sārū_ defeated—Bābur visits The Khān in Tāshkīnt—tribute collected from the Jīgrak tribe—expedition into Aūrātīpā 43-56 901 AH.—Sep. 21st 1495 to Sep. 9th 1496 AD.—Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ campaign against Khusrau Shāh—Bābur receives Aūzbeg sulṯāns—Revolt of the Tarkhāns in Samarkand—Bābur's first move for Samarkand 57-64