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 CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

Note on Authorities 5

I. Introduction 9

PART I. STRUGGLE

II. Farghána, 1494 17

III. Samarkand won and lost, 1494-1500 33

IV. Second conquest of Samarkand, 1500-1501 49

V. Exile, 1502 62

VI. Flight, 1502-1503 75

PART II. KINGDOM

VII. Kábul, 1504-1505 87

VIII. Herát, 1506-1507 102

IX. Kábul and Kandahár, 1507-1510 118

X. Samarkand once more, 1510-1514 128

PART III. EMPIRE

XI. The Invasion of India, 1519-1524 137

XII. Pánipát, 1524-1526 156

XIII. Hindustán, 1526-1528 169

XIV. Empire, 1528-1530 185

Index 201

Portrait or the Emperor Bábar Frontispiece

MAP Face page 16