#baburnama

Basawan and Suraj Gujrati. Illustration from Baburnama or Memoirs of Babur, ca. 183-1530.

-Mir Muhammad Badakhshi

Baburnama

I always used to say that I like historical movies, whether fictional (eg. Bahubali) or non-fictional (eg. Tanhaji). Till now I had never tried reading about history, as I never liked that subject when I was in school. Recently I thought of giving it a shot, and bought Raiders From The North by Alex Rutherford, the book is the first in the series Empire Of The Moghul.

The book is all about Babur - the first ruler of the Moghul Empire. His journey since he became the king  of Ferghana - a small kingdom currently in Uzbekistan, at an age of just 12 Years Old. Babur used to write about his journey in a book titled Baburnama - his autobiography. And the author used this autobiography to write her Book. The author also visited all the places where Babur’s major events happened, stayed with the people over there, and talked to them. And after thorough research wrote this book.

This book is Historical Fiction means it is based on historical facts but some parts of the book are fictional to hook the reader. When I first started reading the book I used to Google which parts are real and which parts are fiction, later I realized that the author has given a note at the end of the book to tell which parts were fiction, which was very nice to have after all.

There is also a TV Series which is based on the Book - The Empire, which you can watch on Hotstar, the first episode published on 21st August 2021.

Some brilliant interconnection, some less successful links are made between art objects from India and the rest of the world

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The exhibition, ‘India and the World: A History in Nine Stories’, cannot be faulted for the scale of its ambition. A collaboration between the British Museum, London, CSMVS Mumbai, and the National Museum, Delhi, this is the second, somewhat reduced edition of the show, the first being at CSMVS. Supported by the Getty Foundation and Tata Trust, it is the kind of encyclopaedic exhibition the…

Two Wild Buffalo in a Landscape (full view)

From a Baburnama made for the emperor Akbar ca. 1589.  His ancestor Babur’s memoirs include detailed descriptions of the animals and flowers that he encountered after his arrival in India in 1526.