Amar Chitra Katha: Babur

Babur was the descendant of the Mongol, Genghis Khan, on his mother's side and .of the Turk, Timur-i-Iang, on his father's side. Timur's heirs had ruled over a kingdom which extended from the Caucasus foothills to Kashgar, but by 1495 it was split between four brothers. One of these was Omar Shaik, Babur's father, who ruled over Farghana, the snow-bound valley where Babur was born in 1483. Nobody would have been able to forecast at that time (nor, indeed, for many years to come) that Babur would one day make his way into India, there to set up the Mughal Empire. Babur was not just a good soldier or an able general; he was also a wise and just ruler, with qualities of . gener. osity and good humour. Because of this, the common people and soldiers rallied round him wherever he went - even in times of misfortune. Babur was a writer and a poet of high merit. In fact, he is one of the few persons in history about whom we have first-hand evidence - straight from his own pen. Babur's account oT his life and time is written with a directness and sincerity which gives the Babur -nama, as his diary is called, an unmistakable ring of truth.

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