Babur

I have reported every good and evil I have seen of father and brother and set down the actuality of every fault and virtue of relative and stranger. May the reader excuse me; may the listener take me not to task.

Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad Babur or Babur (February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530) was a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur; Babur was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, a poet, diarist and statesman. Babur was the first Mughal Emperor and founder of the Mughal Empire.

Quotes

• I have not written all this to complain: I have simply written the truth. I do not intend by what I have written to compliment myself: I have simply set down exactly what happened. Since I have made it a point in this history to write the truth of every matter and to set down no more than the reality of every event, as a consequence I have reported every good and evil I have seen of father and brother and set down the actuality of every fault and virtue of relative and stranger. May the reader excuse me; may the listener take me not to task.
  • As quoted in The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, as translated by Wheeler M. Thackston (2002), p. xxvii

• My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.
  • "History of India" at Amazing World

Disputed

• If you desire to rule and conquer, you don't just fold your hands when things go wrong, you act.
  • "History of India" at Amazing World; it is not clear in the source cited that this is a quote of Babur — it might be a comment made about him.

See also

• Humayun
• Akbar
• Jahangir
• Shah Jahan
• Aurangzeb
• Bahadur Shah
• Muhammad Shah
• Shah Alam II
• Bahadur Shah II
• Ahmad Shah Abdali
• Hyder Ali
• Tipu Sultan