The Baburnama : memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor / translated, edited, and annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston ; introduction by Salman Rushdie.

Bāburnāmah. English

Modern Library pbk. ed.

0375761373 (trade pbk.)

New York : Modern Library, 2002.

English

xlvii, 554 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

DS461.1 .B23213 2002

954.02/52

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.

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-524) and indexes.

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