Thus, every homesick exile feels when confronted with the heat and dust of a swarming, strange sub-continent, and Babur felt it particularly after his years in Kabul, with its thirty-two varieties of ...

Forced out of his homeland in Ferghana, Babur, a descendant of Taimur and Genghis Khan, spent over two decades in the rugged mountains of Kabul, dreaming of an empire. The loss of his ancestral ...