T.G. Percival Spear
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Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge; Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, 1963–69. Author of India: A Modern History and others; coauthor and editor of Oxford History of India (3rd ed.).
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Bābur was the emperor (1526–30) and founder of the Mughal dynasty of northern India. Bābur, a descendant of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and also of the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, and a poet and diarist of genius, as well as a…
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