Photo: "Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan (Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Kh · Public domainBabur’s own memoir of his wars from Ferghana to Hindustan, with his account of Panipat and Khanwa.
He describes the defeat of Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat in April 1526, and the hard battle against Rana Sanga at Khanwa in March 1527, before which he gave up wine and declared the war a jihad. At Gwalior in 1528 he records ordering the rock-cut Jain images of the Urwa valley destroyed.
It is the conqueror’s first-hand account of how Mughal rule began and of the Rajput confederacy’s stand under Rana Sanga.
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ChronicleA court history of Sabuktigin and his son Mahmud of Ghazni, written while Mahmud was still raiding Bharat.
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ChronicleA Sanskrit chronicle in eight books (tarangas), nearly 8,000 verses, of the kings of Kashmir from the earliest times to Kalhana’s own day.
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ChronicleThe court chronicles of the Ahom kingdom, kept year by year for six centuries from the arrival of Sukaphaa in 1228.
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