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How does Tuzuk-i-Babri testify that Babar had been a cultured man?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Read as a character portrait rather than as a historical source in the narrow sense, the Tuzuk-i-Babri (Babur's memoir, also known as the Baburnama) shows a ruler whose refinement of sensibility went well beyond the demands of conquest and statecraft.

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  • Poetic and Literary Craftsmanship
  • The Aesthetics of Landscape: Gardens as Self-Expression
  • Naturalist Curiosity and Empirical Precision
  • Connoisseurship of Music and the Company of Learned Men
  • A Reflective, Self-Critical Temperament
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