Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 461.1 .B23213 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 605451 |
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DS 451 .A435 2013 Ancient history of India : up to 10th century A.D. / | DS 451 .A87 2007 India : the ancient past : a history of the Indian sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200 / | DS 451.5 .T5 1961 Asoka : and the decline of the Mauryas / | DS 461.1 .B23213 1995 The Baburnama : memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor / | DS 461.1 .G7 1930 Baber, first of the Moguls / | DS 461.9 .A28 N59 1972 Socio-religious outlook of Abul Fazl / | DS 463 .D566 2011 At freedom's door / |
Published in association with Oxford University Press, New York.
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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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