The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

This book is a translation of Babur Padshahs Autobiography, made from the original Turki text. It was undertaken after a purely-Turki manuscript had become accessible in England, the Haidarabad Codex (1915) which, being in Baburs ipsissima verba, left to him the control of his translators dictiona control that had been impracticable from the time when, under Akbar (1589), his book was translated into Persian. What has come down to us of pure text is, in its shrunken amount, what was translated in 1589. It is difficult, here and there, to interpret owing to its numerous and in some places extensive lacun, and presents more problems than one the solution of which has real importance because they have favoured suggestions of malfeasance by Babur. My translation has been produced under considerable drawback, having been issued in four fasciculi, at long intervals, respectively in June 1912, May 1914, October 1917, and September 1921. I have put with it of supplementary matter what may be of service to those readers whom Baburs personality attracts and to those who study Turki as a linguistic entertainment, but owing to delays in production am unable to include the desiderata of maps. Baburs civilian aptitudes, whether of the author and penman, the maker of gardens, the artist, craftsman or sportsman, were nourished in a fertile soil of family tradition and example. Little about his teaching and training is now with his mutilated book, little indeed of[Pg xxviii] any kind about his pr-accession years, not the date of his birth even, having escaped destruction.4 Happily Haidar Mirza (q.v.) possessed a more complete Codex than has come down to us through the Timurid libraries, and from it he translated many episodes of Baburiana that help to bridge gaps and are of special service here where the personalities of Bburs early environment are being named. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 44608
Author: Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
Release Date: Jan 7, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Beveridge, Annette Susannah, 1842-1929