Jun 29, 2022
Babur Receives his Brother, Jahangir Mirza, in the Hammam of Akhsi, from a dispersed manuscript of Book of Babur (Baburnameh)
North India, ca. 1590
This exquisite page comes from the autobiographical Baburnameh, in which Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, descendant of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mughal Empire, describes his many travels, victories, and losses. In this scene, the 19-year-old Babur confers with his younger half-brother as they plot their next military actions while having a hot bath in the heavily armed citadel of Akhsi. The Baburnameh, originally written in Babur's own Chagatai Turkish, was translated into Persian during the reign of his grandson Akbar the Great.
