It has been 500 years since the first Battle of Panipat was fought, and it is remembered mainly for the first use of cannons in India, and the beginning of the Mughal empire. However, some literature ...

He wept at the sight of a melon, wrote love poetry in a war camp, and founded an empire he never wanted. Babur fought Panipat five hundred years ago today.

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: ...

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 ...

Barack Obama is no stranger to literary fame. Even before A Promised Land, the celebrated latest addition to the American genre of presidential memoirs, broke records to become the darling of every ...

BHOPAL: After a discussion on a book titled ‘Babur: The Quest for Hindustan’ set to take place at the Bhopal Literature and Art Festival (BLF) was cancelled amid fear of protests, its author Aabhas ...

Reading Babur: The Quest for Hindustan by Aabhas Maldahiyar is an excruciating experience that will test tolerance levels to the utmost. It begins with some florid verses on Rajput bangles that burned ...

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, ...