TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - The Baburnama :memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor / DA - 2002. CY - New York : AU - Babur, AU - Thackston, W. M. ET - Modern Library pbk. ed. CN - DS461.1 CN - DS461.1 PB - Modern Library, PP - New York : LA - eng PY - 2002. N1 - Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1996. ID - 287925 SN - 0375761373 (trade pbk.) TI - The Baburnama :memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002019644.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002019644.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002019644.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002019644.html ER -