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Volume 4 · 58 words · 1860 Edition

ZEHIIR-ED-DIN MOHAMMED, the founder of the Indian Mogul or Tatar empire, was the fifth in descent from Timur. After two unsuccessful attempts, he succeeded in 1519 in subjugating Hindustan; and extended his conquests from the Indus to the Ganges, subduing Afghanistan, the Punjab, and Delhi. See Hindustan. (Memoirs of the Emperor Baber, translated by Leyden and Erskine, 1826.)