The Nāṣirī Generations 271.4.9

271.4.9

The Great Khan likewise adopted a boy of the Tingkut tribe, in his seventh year, brought him up ; and was wont to style him his fifth son. He was the Jifan, who had a great name for valour, and was the Personal Ming—in the Tajik language Hazarah— of the Chingiz Khan, which was limited to 1000 persons, and from it many of the chief officials and leaders were chosen. In Uktae Khan’s expedition into Khitae, Jifan adopted a son himself, a Tingkut, named Burah, taken captive as a child of three years, who was from the urdu of Burtah Kuchin, as were many other defeated him. Now he has returned, and his forces have become very numerous, and he is proceeding against the with these four tribes assigned to Chaghatae Khan — Chaghatae’s tribes. These writers have assumed that there was a great and distinct tribe called “Chagtae,” or “Chugtar,” as a recent author writes it, and a “Chagtae language” ! Some have even gone so far [see “The Turks in India,” by Henry George Keene, M.R.A.S., Judge of Agra, etc. : London : 1879] as to assert that Babar, who founded the Mughal empire in India, was not a Mughal, but a “Chugtae Turk.” He was a Barlas Mughal pure and simple, of the race of Kaiat. It is quite time such fallacies should be given to the winds.