The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Herī, Herāt (Khurāsān), description of 304 to 306; Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s birthplace 256, conquest of 134, splendid rule in 273, ease in 261, feast in 264, delay of a pilgrim in 284, reception of fugitives 243, burial in 293; —joint-rule in 293, 326; weakness before Aūzbeg attack on 296-9, 326; —Shaibānī’s capture of 207, 326-8-9; —Ismā‘īl Ṣafawī’s capture of *350-5; —‘Ubaidu’l-lāh Aūzbeg and *434; —‘Ali-sher Nawā’ī in 4, 271, 286-7; Banā’ī and 286-7; *Shāh Beg and 365, 429, 430; Khwānd-amīr and *432, 605; fugitives from 331; governors of 24, 37, 274 (Koh-dāman), 275, *633; envoys to Bābur from *436; a Begīm comes from 267; Maṣ‘ūma brought from 330; Bābur at 300-1-2, 302 to 307; his marriage with Māhīm in *704; —locates a place 25; fixes a date 258.

Hind, Hindūstān, Hindustānāt—a northern limit of Kābul 200; routes between it and Kābul 206; a journey to Makka made from Kābul through 26; trade and traders 202, 331, 416; Jats and Gujūrs in 454; a saint honoured in 238; a rāja of 219; comings and goings to and from 250, 265, 267, 368; Khwānd-amīr in *432, 605 and n. 6; —Astronomical Tables in 79; names for outside places used in 202; gold from 446; titles in 537; building style in 609; greetings in 640; mentioned by Bābur in a verse 584; Hind-āl named from 385; of Bīānā in 529; of the Betwa 597; —a seemingly limited use of the name Hindūstān 386; of its three names used by Bābur, Hind 26, 219, 385, 525, 532, 577, 577 n. 6, 578, Hindūstānāt 485, Hindūstān usually; —Hindūstān the Less (?) 46 and 46 n. 4; —Lūdī rise in 383; Lūdī possessions in 463, 480; Ibrāhīm’s accession in 385; *torn by faction 439; envoys to Bābur from *426, *436; Bābur’s comments on its chiefs 219, 385, 459; Farmūlī ascendancy in 220; begs in 387; armies in 547; —Tīmūr’s conquest of 382; his employment in Samarkand of workmen from 77; pictures of his victories in 78; tradition of a soldier in his army of 150; —Bābur’s persistent wish to regain Turk possessions in 340, 377, 380-1-2, 478-9; working-out of his desire for *426; varied opposition to his aims 478; *his five expeditions to:— 910 AH.—39, 229, 382; 925 AH.—378 et seq., 478, 480; 926 AH.—*428, *429; its frustration *429, *430, *441; 930 AH.—575, *442; its frustration 442; 932 AH.—*444, 445, 479; —one start frustrated in Kābul 913, AH. 341-3; ‘Ālam Khān asks and obtains help in *439, *441, 455;

Daulat Khān proffers allegiance *440; *Bābur’s prayer for a sign of victory *440; his fifth expedition fixes dates 269, 545; indications that only the fifth aimed at Dihlī *429, *444, 480; his decisive victories, at Pānīpat 475, at Kānwa 574; references to his conquest 220, 561; some of his Begs wish to leave 524-5, 579, 584; his Hindūstān poems 642, App. Q; his ease in and hints at leaving 617, 645, 686; his family brought to 646, 686; —the *Akbar-nāma chronicles no public events of 936-937 AH. in 682; *Bābur’s journey to Lāhor (936 AH.) may point to his leaving Hindūstān 707; *Humāyūn’s arrival in 696, 707; *on Bābur’s intended disposal of Hindūstān 702 to 708; *burial of his body in 709 and later removal from 709-710; —Bābur’s description of Hindūstān 478 to 531, viz.:—Introduction, on earlier Tramontane expeditions into 478 to 480, boundaries and capital of 480, rulers in 932 AH. 481, varied climate, character of and northern mountains 484; rivers and Arāvallī range 485; irrigation 486, other particulars 487, —mammals 488, birds 493, aquatic animals 501, fruits 503, flowers 513; —seasons of the year 515, days of the week 516, division of time 516, weights and measures 517, modes of reckoning 518; —Hindūs in 518; —defects and advantages of 518-9, 531, 532, revenues 520-1.

Hindū-kush mountains, n. boundary of Kābul 200-4; connected ranges 210, 380; called Hindū-kush in Kābul 485; account of their prolongation in Hind (i.e. Himālayas), 485; roads and passes of 204-5; the clouds a hindrance to bird-migration 224; limits of territory fixed by 47-9, 194; an episode on 270 *Bābur’s crossing 930 AH. 442.

Ḥiṣār (-shādmān; Transoxiana), mountains of 222; clans from 228; Kābul trade with 202; —Abā-bikr and 51; Maḥmūd and 47-9; Mas‘ūd and 52, 64, 71, 93-5, 261; Bāī-sunghar and 52, 61, 96, 110-2; Ḥusain and 48, 57-8-9, 61, 130, 191, 260-3, 275; Bābur traverses 128, 130, 187-8, moves for *352, takes 37, 262, *352-3, defends *358, 471, attacked in 345, *361-2, leaves 362-3; —Mughūls leave 58 and rebel 105; goers to 104, 141; Shaibānī and 192, 244, *362; abandoned by the Aūzbegs 622-4; Khusrau Shāh and see s.n.; *threefold catastrophe in 362; Humāyūn ordered to attack 625; Qāsim qūchīn and 66; a governor in 46-7; occupied for Bābur 640.