A History of Agriculture in India v2.c67.s5.4

v2.c67.s5.4

It appears that in spite of a brilliant translation in Persian available since A.D. 1589 it was the Turki Babur-nama that held the place of honour in the Royal Library of the Mughal Emperor. It seems something of an irony, therefore, that its original should have been lost and unlike the Persian Waqiat-i-Baburi should have been unavailable even in copy to the European scholars when they started taking interest in Babur’s autobiography. It is surmised that the original of the Babur-nama was either destroyed in the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in A.D. 1739 or burnt during the Mutiny in that city in A.D. 1857. The Persian Waqiat-i-Baburi, however, escaped either of those two fates and attracted the attention of the European Indologists.