Babur’s place in History

Babur’s place in History

BABUR

A highly respectable position has been assigned to Babur in History, and all modern and contemporary historians have praised him much. His excellent victories of northern India enabled him to secure a rightful place in history. In case he had failed in India like his failures in Central Asia, he would not have been assigned a high place in history. No doubt, attempts were being made by the Rajput and the Muslim rulers of Pre-Mughal period to establish a strong monarchy in India, but they failed to achieve their mission. Babur having won some significant battle in India established a strong and stable empire in India.

Shattering the powers of the Afghans and Rajputs was a wonderful achievement of Babur, hence, Dr. S. R. Sharma has compared Babur with Henry VII, the King of England. In his words, “In A.D. 1526 Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, by his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first Battle of Panipat, Ushered in a new era in India and a new dynasty on the throne of Delhi, as Henry VII had done in England after his triumph on the field of Bosworth only forty years earlier, i.e. in A.D. 1485.” Dr. R. P Tripathi has also praised Babur for his liberal policies towards his subjects in these words, “Babur had not only shown the way to found a new empire but had indicated the character and policy which should govern it. He established a dynasty and tradition in India, which have few parallels in the history of any other country,”

During the reign of the Delhi Sultanate the Kings were not absolute monarchs. They worked under the nominal sovereignty of the Khalifa and sought his recognition, only then they could be regarded as kings. But Babur did not act according to this old tradition, he established himself as an independent emperor. Thus he changed the theocratic status of Kingdom and adopted liberal policies in the field of religion. He did not oppress Hindus during peace times. Although Lane-Poole writes that Babur was only “a soldier of fortune and o architect of empire, yet he laid the first stone of the splendid fabric which his grandson Akbar achieved.” As a prince of autobiographers he surpasses all medieval autobiography writers. In short, it can be said that Babur held the sword and the pen with equal dexterity and besides being a great warrior and commander; he was also a literary man of great ability. He was a worshiper of nature, a lover of arts and a tolerant ruler of the Mughal period.

Milan Tomic

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