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About The Book: The book contain The Memoirs of Babar, the first of the Moghul Emperors of Hindustan, begins with the words, "In the month of Ramazan of the year eight hundred and ninety-nine (June, 1494), I became King of Farghana." Babar serves as a crucial link between Central Asia and India, predatory hordes and imperial government, and Tamerlane and Akbar. His bloodline is a mixture of the two great Scourges of Asia, Chingiz and Timur, and he embodies the daring and restlessness of the nomad Tatar as well as the culture and urbanity of the Persian. He brought the energy of the Mongol and the courage and capacity of the Turk to the listless Hindu. Although Babar was a soldier of fortune and not an architect of empire, he laid the first stone of the splendid fabric that his grandson Akbar achieved. About The Author: Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854–1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. Richard was a Royal Navy officer and Charles was a forester who did much work in Australia.