The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c12.s3.35

v4.c12.s3.35

The *Memoirs* of Bābur must be reckoned among the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all time. They were written in that form of Turkish known as Turkī, which was Bābur's mother-tongue. As we possess them they are not complete; all the copies known to us contain gaps from 1508 to 1519, from 1520 to 1525 and from 1529 to 1530. A more complete copy was apparently known to his cousin Mirzā Haidar, the author of the *Tārīkh-i-Rashīdī*; but the translation into Persian made in 1589 by Khān Khānān ‘Abdur-Rahīm, the son of Bairam Khān, contains the same gaps as the Haidarabad Codex, from which Mrs Annette Beveridge made her admirable English translation.