Gulbadan Begam, Princess Rosebody, was the youngest daughter of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor of India. Her memoirs provide a unique document of history, the story of a sixteenth century Mughal royal family as seen through the loyal but keen eyes of a lady with a remarkable ability to remember and recount the smallest details of her eventful life. She describes battles, escapes, nomadic wanderings, life in the haram, her pilgrimage to Mecca and many ...
