Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India c6.s2.74

c6.s2.74

Dr. Gopi Chand Varma, writing in the Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur, dated 27 April 1997, on the controversy of Babur's Wasiatnama or Will has raised some new points and made some fresh suggestions. He writes that Babur's Will (Wasiatnama) is supposed to have been written on Jamad-ul-Avval 935 H (11 January 1529). From then on up to 1857, for 328 years, it does not find a mention in any Persian history; Babur too has not referred to it in his own Tuzuk-i-Baburi. Varma asks: Why did he not say so in his memoirs? Babur wrote his memoirs in Turki, why is this Wasiatnama written in Persian? He asks many more such questions.