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a timurid teenager lost his kingdom, wandered central asia, and won india instead.
means babur was the founder of the mughal empire, a central asian prince descended from timur and genghis khan who conquered northern india in 1526.
from born in 1483 in the ferghana valley (modern uzbekistan), babur inherited a tiny kingdom at age 11, lost it, tried and failed to retake samarkand repeatedly, then pivoted south — taking kabul, then delhi, founding an empire that would outlast him by centuries.
first battle windefeated the sultan of delhi at panipat, 1526
secret weapongunpowder cannons, rare in india then
wrote memoirsthe baburnama, startlingly candid autobiography
missed homenever stopped longing for ferghana's melons