[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Bābur (1526–1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur) › [Bāburnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama) › [The Babur-nama in English (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge) › 926.2.2 # The Memoirs of Bābur 926.2.2 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 926.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [926.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2.2) The events of these unrecorded years are less interesting than those of the preceding gap, inasmuch as their drama of human passion is simpler; it is one mainly of cross-currents of ambition, nothing in it matching the maelstrom of sectarian hate, tribal antipathy, and racial struggle which engulphed Bābur's fortunes beyond the Oxus. None-the-less the period has its distinctive mark, the biographical one set by his personality as his long-sustained effort works out towards rule in Hindūstān. He becomes felt; his surroundings bend to his purpose; his composite following accepts his goal; he gains the southern key of Kābul and Hindūstān and presses the Arghūns out from his rear; in the Panj-āb he becomes a power; the Rājpūt Rānā of Chitor proffers him alliance against Ibrāhīm; and his intervention is sought in those warrings of the Afghāns which were the matrix of his own success. \_a. Dramatis personae.\_ The following men played principal parts in the events of the unchronicled years:— Bābur in Kābul, Badakhshān and Balkh,\[1547\] his earlier following purged of Mughūl rebellion, and augmented by the various Mīrzās-in-exile in whose need of employment Shāh Beg saw Bābur's need of wider territory.\[1548\] Sulṯān Ibrāhīm \_Lūdī\_ who had succeeded after his father Sikandar's death (Sunday Ẕū'l-qa\`da 7th 923 \_AH.\_-Nov. 21st 1517 AD.)\[1549\], was now embroiled in civil war, and hated for his tyranny and cruelty. - [Previous: 926.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2.1) - [Next: 926.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2.3) - [Up: 926.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.926.2.2) · Pramāṇa