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In the previous post, I wrote about the First Ruler Of The Moghul Empire, which was the story of Babur. So I finished reading the sequel part of the book called Brothers At War, which talks about the journey of his successor and beloved son Humayun.

The book started where it ended in the last part, the death of Babur.  Babur had not distributed his kingdom amongst his children, he wanted to capture the whole of India and wanted to be ruled by only one emperor. Hence he named Humayun as his sole successor and hoped that others will help him achieve his dream.

Though before Babur it was their custom that the kingdom will get divided amongst children, as that is their birthright. And hence they felt unjust by this decision and rebelled against their own eldest brother Humayun.

Humayun was heartbroken by the deeds of his brother, but since he promised Babur that he won’t do any harm to any of his brothers even if how much they deserved it, hence he did not execute them but gave them separate cities to rule under his empire.

In almost 75% of the book, Humayun had been troubled by their brothers because of this he was not able to fulfill his father’s dreams. But lost all the cities which Babur had conquered in India, and had to return from India. But as he was returning from India he realized his brother has gone behind his back and forcefully conquered Kabul his birthplace as well.

Due to which at one point Humayun had lost everything, but piece by piece he conquered all which was lost, though he was not able to add anything new to Babur’s kingdom, still he was able to at least conquer all which was lost. Unfortunately in the end Humayun had his unexpected death.

The story is picked up from Humayunnama, a Biography which was written by her half-sister Gulbadan, who used to travel with him on all of his expeditions & few parts were taken from the writing of Humayun’s personal attendant, which remains loyal to him from the start of his reign. The best part of this book was nearly all of the characters were real, which made the read all the more interesting.

Will keep on updating as I read further into this 6 book series of the Moghul Empire.

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.