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by Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
published on 26 November 2024

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Timur Handing the Crown to Babur

by Victoria & Albert Museum
published on 04 November 2024

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This painting establishes the Mughal Dynasty depicting Timur Lane handing the crown to his grandson Babur who has his own son and heir Humayun also present.

Legend has it that as Humayun languished at the doors of death with a toxic fever, Babur, after consulting a Chisti Sufi pir, offered himself to God in place of his son. Duly the son’s health waxed and his father’s waned, at last bringing him, in place of his beloved son, to his deathbed on the 21st of December 1530

Opaque watercolour on gold paper, by Govardhan, about 1628, Mughal. Museum no. IM.8-1925. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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