Except in the corridors of power in New Delhi—where his name is anathema to the Hindu nationalist government—it’s hard to find anything but esteem for Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur, a man remembered in ...

For the Timurids, or the Mughals of Hindustan, Samarkand remained their home, which they lost and could never get back.

"The Mughal Empire was one of the great powers of the early modern era, ruling almost all of South Asia, a conquest state, dominated by its military elite. Many historians have viewed the Mughal ...

Babur ascended the throne at Farghana in Transoxiana in 1494 at the age of twelve after the death of his father. The situation in Central Asia was not stable, and Babur had to face a lot of resistance ...

While reading Raiders from the North, the first in the six-part Empire of the Moghul series by Diana Preston and Michael Preston, who write as Alex Rutherford, one encounters the many layers of Babur: ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on the construction or naming of any mosque in the name of Babur or Babri Masjid across India, news agency PTI ...

The bold invasions of Central Asia by Babur at the age of only 43 resulted in the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic plain, which have formed the basis of the successors such as Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, ...