The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Sayyid ‘Alī Khān Turk, son of Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān and grandson of Mīr (Shaikh) ‘Alī Beg—one of Sikandar Lūdī’s Governors in the Panjāb (910) 382; leaves Bhīra on Bābur’s approach ib.; his lands made over by him to Daulat Khān Yūsuf-khail 382-3; his son Minūchihr and their Turk relation (389) q.v.

Sult̤ān ‘Alī Mīrzā Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid, Barlās Turk, son of Maḥmūd and Zuḥra—particulars 47; serving his half-brother Bāī-sunghar (900) 27, 55; made pādshāh in Samarkand by the Tarkhāns (901) 62-3, 86; meets Bābur 64; their arrangement 66, (902) 65, 82, 86; gives no protection to his blind half-brother Mas‘ūd (903) 95; suspects a favoured beg (904) 98; quarrels with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; desertions from him 122; defeats Mīrzā Khān’s Mughūls ib.; is warned of Bābur’s approach 125; gives Samarkand to Shaibānī and by him is murdered (906) 125-7; his wife Sult̤ānīm Mīrān-shāhī and sister Makhdūm-sult̤ān q.v.; [♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].

Sult̤ān ‘Alī Mīrzā T̤aghāī Begchīk (Mīrzā Beg T̤aghāī), brother(?) of Bābur’s wife Gul-rukh—movements of his which bear on the lacuna of 914-924 AH. 408; arrives in Kābul (925) ib.; Kāmrān marries his daughter (934) 619; conveys Bābur’s wedding gifts to Kāmrān (935) 642; takes also a copy of the Wālidiyyah-risāla and of the Hindūstān poems, with writings (sar-khat̤t̤) in the Bāburī script 642.

Ustād ‘Alī-qulī—his match-lock shooting at Bajaur (925) 369; shoots prisoners (932) 466; ordered to make Rūmī defences at Pānīpat 469; fires firingīs from the front of the centre 473; casts a large mortar (933) 536, 547; his jealousy of Muṣt̤afa Rūmī 550; his post previous to Kānwa 558; his valiant deeds in the battle 570-1; a new mortar bursts (934) 588; his choice of ground at Chandīrī 593; his stone-discharge interests Bābur 595, 670-1-2; uses the Ghāzī mortar while the Ganges bridge is in building 599; a gift to his son (935) 633; his post in the battle of the Ghogrā 667, 668, 669.

Mīr ‘Alī-sher Beg Chaghatāī, pen-names Nawā’ī and Fanā’ī—his obligations to Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg and return to Herāt 38; fails in a mission of Ḥusain Bāī-qarā’s (902) 692875; his Turkī that of Andijān 4; checks Ḥusain in Shī‘a action 258; opposes administrative reform 282; particulars 271-2; his relations with Banā’ī 286-7, 648; corresponds with Bābur (906) 106; exchanges quatrains with Pahlawān Bū-sa‘īd 292; some of his poems transcribed by Bābur (925) 419; his restoration of the Rabāt̤-i-sang-bast 301 n. 1; his flower-garden (bāghcha) and buildings visited or occupied by Bābur (912) 301, 305, 306; his brother Darwesh-i-‘alī q.v.; a favoured person 278; a mystic of his circle 280-1; his scribe 271; [♰906 AH.-Dec. 1500 AD.].