I crave the indulgence of the reader whilst I explain as briefly as possible the plan upon which I have written this short life of the great sovereign who firmly established the Mughal dynasty in India.[1] [Footnote 1: For the purposes of this sketch I have referred to the following authorities: _Memoirs of Babar_, written by himself, and translated by Leyden and Erskine; Erskine's _Babar and Humayun_; _The Ain-i-Akbari_ (Blochmann's translation); _The History of India, as told by its own Historians_, edited from the posthumous papers of Sir H. M. Elliot, K.C.B., by Professor Dowson; Dow's _Ferishta_; Elphinstone's _History of India_; Tod's _Annals of Rajast'han_, and various other works.]…
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