بابرنامه

Author

Babur

Language

Chagatai

Year

1530

Country

India

Genre

Long-Form Journalism (Memoir, Firsthand Account, or Reportage)

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The Bāburnāma is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as Türki "Turkic", the spoken language of the Timurids.