21. BABAR, ZAHIR UD-DIN MUHAMMAD

BABAR, ZAHIR UD-DIN MUHAMMAD (1483-1530), soldier of fortune, founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, diarist and poet, descending in the fifth generation from Timur, was born on 14 February 1483. In June 1494, he succeeded his father, 'Umar Shaikh',...

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22. BAHADUR SHAH

BAHADUR SHAH (16431712), Mughal emperor of India from 1707 to 1712. Born Muhammad Mu'azzam at Burhanpur in the Deccan on 14 October 1643, he was actively employed by his father, Aurangzib, from 1663 onwards for subduing the kingdom of Bijapur and the...

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23. BAHADUR SINGH.

BAHADUR SINGH. who belonged to Nanku, an obscure village in Jalandhar district of the Punjab, was among the close associates of Bhai Maharaj Singh, leader of the anti British revolt of 1848-49. After the failure of the design to rescue Maharaja Dulee...

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24. BALVAND, RAI,

BALVAND, RAI, a rababi or rebeckplayer in the time of Guru Arjan and cocomposer with Satta, said to be his brother, of a Var included in the Guru Granth Sahib in the Ramkali musical measure. He was by birth a mirasi, Muslim minstrel and genealogist, ...

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25. BARELAVI, SAYYID AHMAD

BARELAVI, SAYYID AHMAD (17861831), leader of the militant Wahabi movement in India for the purification and rehabilitation of Islam, was born at Rae Bareli, in presentday Uttar Pradesh, on 29 November 1786, in a Sayyid family. At school, he took more...

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