In 2002, Wheeler Thackston produced an English translation of this book, updating the 1905 translation by Annette Beveridge.
In 2002, Wheeler Thackston produced an English translation of this book, updating the 1905 translation by Annette Beveridge. A frequently reproduced illustration from this book depicts its main character laying out the "Garden of Fidelity." It spends much time discussing its author's love for melons, and describes how its author grieves for his mother by reading contemporary poets like Banna'i of Herat and Asafi. Because his father was a drunkard, this work's author doesn't have his first glass of wine till age 29, leading to a ten-year period of heavy drinking that lasted till a vow of temperance before the (*) Battle of Khanwa. Its first English translations were mostly derived from a Persian version created by the son of Bairam Khan, though it was written in the Chagatai dialect of Turkic. It begins with the author's declaration that at age 12 he became king of Fergana. For 10 points, name this autobiography which chronicles the life of the founder of the Mughal Dynasty.
In 2002, Wheeler Thackston produced an English translation of this book, updating the 1905 translation by Annette Beveridge.
Baburnama [or The Memoirs of Babur; accept Babur's autobiography before "autobiography"]