The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c3.18

c3.18

A word about the spelling of the name Bābar. The name is spelt as both ‘Bābur’ and ‘Bābar’ but pronounced as ‘Bābar’. Not being acquainted with Turkish, to which the word belongs, I thought it safe to follow the prevalent pronunciation in spelling the word. After seeing the body of the book through the press, I find that E. Denison Rose has discussed the issue in detail while introducing *A Collection of Poems by the Emperor Babur* (Calcutta, 1910), p. i, and come to the conclusion that the name should be distinctly vocalized and spelt as ‘Bābur’ or ‘Bābūr’. But, so far as the present work is concerned, it is rather too late to mend.