Baburi' in india (Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur)1
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for More Information please Visit www.bbc.co.uk Zahiruddin Muhammad was born on February 14, 1483[2] in the town of Andijan, in the Fergana Valley which is in modern Uzbekistan. He was the eldest son of Omar Sheikh Mirza,[3] ruler of the Fergana Valley, who he described as "short and stout, round-bearded and fleshy faced",[citation needed] and his wife Qutlugh Nigar Khanum. Although Babur hailed from the Barlas tribe which was of Mongol origin, his tribe had embraced Turkic[4] and Persian culture[5][6] (see Turco-Mongol, Turco-Persian), converted to Islam and resided in Turkestan and Khorasan. His mother tongue was the Chaghatai language (known to Babur as Tōrkī, "Turkish") and he was equally at home in Persian, the lingua franca of the Timurid elite[7]; he wrote his famous memoirs, the Baburnama, in the former language, that of his birthplace. " Andijanis are all Turks; everyone in town or bazar knows Turki. The speech of the people resembles the literary language; hence the writings of Mir 'Ali-sher Nawa'i, though he was bred and grew up in Hin (Herat), are one with their dialect. Good looks are common amongst them. The famous musician, Khwaja Yusuf, was an Andijani
