[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) › [Tuzak-i Babari (extracts, from Erskine's translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot) › 2.5.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 2.5.7 Túzak-i Bábarí (extracts, from Erskine's translation) 2.5.7 - **Language:** English ### [2.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5.7) On these accounts, not a few of my Begs and best men began to lose heart, objected to remaining in Hindustan, and even began to make preparations for their return. \* \* \* I no sooner heard this murmuring among my troops, than I summoned all my Begs to a council. I told them that, \* \* by the Divine favour, I had routed my formidable enemy, and achieved the conquest of the numerous provinces and kingdoms which we at present held, "and now, what force compels, and what hardship obliges us, without any visible cause, after having worn out our life in accomplishing the desired achievement, to abandon and fly from our conquests, and to retreat back to Kabul with every symptom of disappointment and discomfiture? Let not any one who calls himself my friend ever henceforward make such a proposal. But if there is any one among you who cannot bring himself to stay, or to give up his purpose of returning back, let him depart." Having made them this fair and reasonable proposal, the discontented were of necessity compelled, however unwillingly, to renounce their seditious purposes. Khwaja Kilan not being disposed to remain, it was arranged that as he had a numerous retinue, he should return back to guard the presents. \* \* \* - [Previous: 2.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5.6) - [Next: 2.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5.8) - [Up: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-elliot.2.5.7) · Pramāṇa