The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c27.33.1

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Bābā Piārā ford, 315, 381 Bābur; birth and early career, 2; inherits Farghāna, captures Samarqand, surrenders it to Shaibānī Khān, hides in Tāshkent, 4; captures Kābul, raids India west of Indus, marches to Herāt, 5; defeats Arghūns and again raids India and assumes title of emperor, 6; takes Bukhārā and Samarqand, but is expelled, 7; renounces hopes of recovering them, 8; his invasions of Hindustān, captures Bājaur, Kohāt, Tarbila, 10; takes Lahore and Dīpālpur, but returns to aid Isma‘īl Shāh, 11; advances to Ambāla and Pānīpat, 12; wins battle of Pānīpat and enters Delhi, 13; becomes Emperor of Hindūstān, description of India in his *Memoirs*, 14; his initial difficulties, 15; escapes death by poison, at war with Rānā Sanga, 16; religious qualms, victory at Khānua, takes Chanderī and Lucknow, victory in battle of the Gogra, 17; gains Bihār, illness and death, his *Memoirs*, 18, 20; way of life and character, 19; poems, 20; dying injunctions, 21; 46, 47; 347; on Indian architecture, 523–4; mosques built by, 524 and n. 1 Backergunge, 236 Badakhshān, its area, 4; held by Bābur, 8; Humāyūn levies forces in, 12, 143; Humāyūn returns to, 17; but leaves, 18; 36; ruled by Sulaimān, 41; attacked by Kāmrān, 42; Akbar plans conquest of, 134; taken by ‘Abdullah II, 144; by Murād Bakhsh, 203 Bādām-chasma, 5 Badan Singh Jāt, 348 Badāūn (or Barārī) Ghāt, 419 Badāūnī, on Sher Shāh, 57; on Bairam Khān, and atrocities in Mālwā, 79, 80; does not condemn abolition of *jizya*, 87; 96 n. 1;