History of Asia

History of the Mughal devil Babur, the looter of Central Asia

Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, "Babur's paternal side was related to Timurlang and maternal side was related to Genghis Khan, who were two of the cruelest and most plunderers of the world, who shook the whole world with their injustices and atrocities and all humanity. was crushed under his feet. In front of whom there was no such thing as generosity and kindness. Demolition was the main goal of his life….Babur was also considered a cannibal by the people and people used to run away from him wherever he used to go.”

Judge Shri J. M Shelat wrote, “Babur was the son of Umar Shaikh, the lord of Fargana, a small kingdom on the eastern border of Persia. Omar Sheikh's father was the great-grandson of Taimurlang. Babur's mother was the second daughter of Yunus Khan, son of Qutlug Nigar Khanum, the cruelest Mongol Genghis Khan. It can be said that all the Mughal emperors of India had the blood of two cruel and barbaric castes of the world in their veins. (Akbar, J. M. Shelat, p. 6)

Babur was born on February 14, 1483 AD. Babur's father, who was a very alcoholic and opium alcoholic, died after falling from the slaughterhouse when Babur was 11 years old and he became the successor of Fargana.

robber devil babar

Babur's entire life is a story of robbery - initially petty robberies, later very terrible robberies. On the 54th page of his memoir, Babur writes that once he attacked the Jagrag (a wild race) and snatched their 20000 sheep and 1500 horses. These plundered Khasotan helped him later in plundering India through himself and his progeny. On page 118, he writes of the war with Tambolas, “We ordered the heads of many prisoners to be beheaded….The enemy continued to plunder the country, drove their horses, killed their men and put them in trouble. put it.”

On the 219th page of his memoir, Babur writes about the slaves that it was because of them that the Yavan looters used to attack India. It is clear that since the invasion of Central Asian Muslim robbers in India, helpless Hindu women, men, children surrounded like wild animals for misdeeds, unnatural sex, etc., did not sell in Muslim markets like Bukhara, Samarkand, Ghazni, Damascus, Baghdad etc. They used to go, but also forced them to join forces in the attack on their own motherland by converting them by force. In this way, the number of times these wicked robbers took the goons with them and attacked helpless Hindus and sold them as slaves, they used to become rich in the same proportion.

Describing the attack on Kohat, Babur writes, “We broke down on Kohat, plundered it in the afternoon, took countless oxen and buffaloes along and took many Afghans captive. A lot of granaries were found in their homes. Our plunderers reached the river Sindh….Then it was decided that we would go back by way of the city, plundering the territories of Afghans and Bangash…..Orders were given that the heads of the captured alive should be beheaded; At our next stop, the tower of their heads was erected."

Babur's goons looted a lot of cloth in the raid on the Kiwi caste. The skulls of the slain Afghans were piled up. After this, Babur decided to go there thinking that he could get valuables in Dash's loot. On the way iskhel (ishikul) was attacked and sheep, cattle and clothes were brought in abundance.

On page 53 of Volume 2, one of his robes appears to have been found by thieves in Arabian Nights, "The loot consisted of horses, camel-camelons, mules loaded with silk, leather bags, tents and velvet awnings. In every house, thousands of mind materials were kept properly and locked in the boxes. In every store there were heaps of heaps of trunks and bundles and other articles, cloak bags and vessels filled with silver coins. There was a lot of loot in every house. So were countless sheep."

He further writes, “Finding ourselves unable to count the money, we used to distribute it by weighing it with scales. The Baig people, officers and servants carried silver bags and all the weights (about 700 pounds) and we returned to Kabul with enough money, plunder and fame.”

Similarly, giving details of the distribution of looted goods from India, Babur writes, “I gave ten lakhs to some rich, eight lakhs, seven lakhs and six lakhs to some. I distributed gifts to my friends and relatives in Samarkand, Khorasan, Kashgar and Iraq. Gifts were also sent to the mullahs of Khorasan Samarkand, Mecca and Medina. In this way the gold bird India was slowly becoming poor due to the loot of Muslim invaders.

Brutal Devil Babur

Babur writes in his memoirs, “We took a large number of prisoners. I ordered that their heads be beheaded (the Battle of Tambul). Those who were presented alive were ordered to beheaded (the battles of Kohad and Hangu). A tower of their skulls was erected. A tower of severed ends was also erected in Hangu. A group of severed heads was gathered at a place called Bannu…the enemy soldiers were provoking us to fight. A tower of cut skulls of these Afghans was erected.

Thus I was satisfied with the success of Bajaur's attack… I ordered a pillar to be erected on the battlefield from a set of cut skulls. I sent an army under the leadership of Hindal Beg to plunder Panjkora. Even before the army could reach Panjkora, the residents there fled. The residents of Sayeedpur, who protested, were hacked. Their wives and children were taken prisoner and their entire property was looted…..Lahore market and city were looted and set on fire.

When I reached Agra for the first time, it was noticed that there was strong mutual animosity between the people there and my men, there was a feeling of hatred and enmity, the peasants and soldiers of the village boycotted my men. Later, except Delhi and Agra, people everywhere refused to obey my orders. When I reached Agra, it was a hot summer day, because of my fear all the residents there ran away. The villagers revolted because of hatred and enmity with us. The roads were blocked, Qasimi was at this time proceeding towards Bayana with a small army. He cut off the heads of some people and took them to me.

Mulla Turk Ali was ordered to inspect every possibility of plundering and destroying Mewat. Magfur Diwan was also given similar orders to proceed to attack some remote border areas, destroy the village and take the residents there."

A Qazi complained to Babur that a Hindu named Mohan Mundahir attacked the Qazi's property, burnt, looted all the property and killed the Qazi's son in order to avenge the Qazi's grab of his entire property. Babur then sent Ali Quli Hamdani along with 3000 Arabs to avenge the misbehavior done to the Qazi's son. About a thousand Mundahirs were killed and an equal number of women, men and children were taken prisoner. The murder was terrible, a tower of severed heads was built. Mohan was captured alive. When the prisoners were brought to Delhi, all the women were divided among the Mughals. Mundahir was buried in the ground till his waist and was killed by raining arrows on him. (Dowson in the Iliad, p. 236)

Invasion of robber Babur on India

While invading India, Muslim invaders always poisoned Hindu ponds, lakes, wells and other sources of water or corrupted them with excreta and rotten corpses. Babar also adopted the same tactics while fighting with Rana Sanga at Fatehpur Sikri.

Babur had made five attacks on India before completely setting foot in India. The first in early 1519 AD, the second in September of the same year, the third in 1520, the fourth in 1524 and the fifth in November 1525.

In the third attack on India, Babur extended till Bajaur. Here he created a terrible massacre and built a tower of skulls, but as soon as he crossed the Indus, Babur was driven across the Indus by the border guards, the brave Gakharas (Khokhars) and other Hindu castes. Still he succeeded in robbing Sialkot. The residents of Saidpur resisted but were ambushed by the sword, their children and women were taken along to be raped and converted to Islam, and their entire property was looted.

Babur's fourth invasion of India took place in 1524. The Afghan generals of Ibrahim Lodi were defeated and the city of Lahore was looted and set on fire. The order of massacre was given in Devalpur. Babur extended up to Sirhind and then returned to Kabul.

He attacked India again on 7 November 1525. He captured Sialkot on December 22, 1525. Babur entered Malout fort on January 8, 1526. This was the traditional throne of Janjua Rajputs. Babar writes about this war, “I sent some part of the gold and other items found in Malout fort to Balakh for self-fulfillment, some to Kabul as a gift to my relatives and friends and some part to my children and dependents. .

Babur reached Panipat on April 12, 1526. The decisive battle in which the Afghan ruler of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodi was killed, took place on April 21, 1526. On May 4, 1526, Babur reached Agra and plundered the Hindus, imprisoned them and divided the women for rape among his soldiers. On July 11, 1526, he feasted at the so-called Taj Mahal. He writes, "A few days after the Eid, a sumptuous feast was held in such a large hall, which is decorated with a columnar row of stone pillars and which are under the dome in the middle of the stone palace of Sultan Ibrahim."

When Singh Rana Sanga of India was moving forward to stop Babur, many Muslim governors, rulers, fortresses etc. of India supported Babur due to being more sympathetic than Rana Sanga. Still, Rana Sanga defeated Babur in the battle of Khanwa. Here Rana Sanga made a mistake and accepted Babur's offer of ceasefire and gave him a chance to prepare for the military again.

Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, "The defeat of Khanwa had created great fear in Babur's camp and his generals were insisting to return. If Rana Sanga had come to drive out Babur's army directly from Khanwa, he would have won, but he gave the enemy time to reorganize again.”

The final battle between Rana Sanga and Babur took place at Fatehpur Sikri where Rana was defeated and Babur's forces destroyed the palace of Fatehpur Sikri. The elephants built on the entrance road towards the river were destroyed. Idols and temples of deities were destroyed. Later Akbar lived in these palaces for some years.

On the orders of Babur, his commander Mir Baqi destroyed this Shri Ram temple built in Ayodhya with a cannon on 21 March 1528. General Cunningham, the first chairman of the Archaeological Survey of India, has written that Mir Baqi did this work after killing 174,000 Ram devotees.

Babur died on 26 December 1530 in the so-called Taj Mahal in Agra. His body was kept in Ram Bagh on the banks of Yamuna for a few days and was later taken to Kabul and buried.