Babur بابر
first Mughal emperor · Fergana · Kabul · Agra · 1483–1530
King of Fergana at twelve, then driven out, he went by way of Kabul to found the Mughal Empire in India. He left a memoir in Chagatai that records his life in close detail.
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February 1529 · Even after he had taken India he could not forget the melons and grapes of home
a melon was brought to me; to cut and eat it affected me strangely; I was all tears!Letter to his friend Khwaja Kalan in Kabul, in the Baburnama · in place of the original: the English translation by Annette Beveridge (1922)
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