When Babur first set foot in Hindustan in the early 16th century, he saw it through the eyes of a Central Asian prince shaped by the refined courts of Samarkand and Kabul. His memoir, the Baburnama, ...

Extending the narrative of the Baburnama, the memoirs of the founder of the Mughal empire, from the previous column: Babur descends into the Indian plain at the head of 12,000 horsemen. Two decades ...

Except in the corridors of power in New Delhi—where his name is anathema to the Hindu nationalist government—it’s hard to find anything but esteem for Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur, a man remembered in ...

Former litigant in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute, Iqbal Ansari, said Babur was no Messiah, and no mosque should be built in his name. He was reacting to the alleged laying of the foundation ...

Since the departure from Andijān last year (AD 1500), Babur’s family has seen abundant hardships. Now finally after things had begun to settle for him in Samarkand, his mother and wife reached ...

Fourteen appeals have been filed in the Supreme Court against the verdict. Mughal emperor Babur neither visited Ayodhya nor ordered demolition of the temple to construct a mosque in 1528 at the Ram ...

Manimugdha S Sharma is a Delhi-based editor with The Times of India. He is an ardent history buff with a fascination for military history. He loves infantry and artillery weapons, horses and swords, ...

ON A bright winter's morning lines of plane trees and immaculately tended rose bushes fall away down terraces where men crash out on carpets and sheepish young couples sit as close together as they ...

BrahMos has been jointly developed by India’s DRDO and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya through BrahMos Aerospace, and has been operational since the 2000s to emerge as India’s main supersonic cruise ...

With the successful launch of Babur-3 missile, Pakistan completes its nuclear triad. New Delhi: With the first successful test of the submarine-launched Babur missile, Pakistan has taken a giant step ...