Out of Ferghana and Bokhara The First Mughal

Abstract

Welcome back, dear reader. The book I am going to feature this time is an autobiographical memoir of the first Mughal, founder of the dynasty of the same name, Zahiruddin Babur, adventurer-prince of Turkic origins, who fought his way into India in the early part of the sixteenth century. The lofty title of the book is “Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din Muhammad Baber, Emperor of Hindustan, written by himself, in the Jaghatai Turki†. It was translated into English by John Leyden and William Erskine, contains a “Map of the Countries Between The Oxus and Jaxartes†, and was published in 1826. It is inscribed with the name of one Mitchell King whose signature bears the date of 1848. Mr. King you will notice has, a sense of humor and writes his name in a way that you would read the title as the Memoirs of Mitchell King:))