A History of Agriculture in India v2.c67.7

v2.c67.7

Zehir-ud-din Muhammad Babur was born on 14 February 1483 in Andijan in Farghānā. Farghānā is like Kashmir Valley, with flowing water, and orchards of apples, peaches and pomegranates. It also grows muskmelons and watermelons of high quality. The roads are lined with avenues of poplars and *chinars*. This valley is in Uzbekistan, a Central Asian republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Babur’s father, Umar Sheikh Mirza, a Turk and a descendent of Timur, was the ruler of Farghānā. His mother, Khutlugh Nigar Khanum, a Mongol, was descendant of Chingiz Khan. So both from the father’s and mother’s sides he could claim an ancestry of unique distinction.