Treasure Seekers: Empires of India Page #3

Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Graham Townsley
 
IMDB:
6.2
Year:
2001
59 Views


Babur's trump card was

the discipline of his troops

and his Turkish artillery.

The Indian elephants charged

but were met with explosions

of canons and mortar.

They panicked, spun, and stampeded.

The whole army fell into disarray.

Just a few hours after it began,

the battle became a rout.

The Indians, including their leader,

were massacred as they ran.

Babur had just pulled off

an astonishing military feat.

Finally, Hindustan was his.

With Hindustan in his grasp,

one of the first things Babur did was

to send Hindustani dancing girls

to entertain his wives

in their harem in Kabul.

It was a gracious gesture.

His wives, covered and restrained,

their faces painted stiffly white

in the central Asian style,

must have been astonished.

Out of meetings like this, of the

stark world of central Asian Islam

with the lush anarchy of India, would

arise the glories of the Mughal style.

As Babur took stock of

his new possession,

even he well versed in plunder

was stunned.

The astonishing treasuries

of Hindustan

contained the Kohinoor diamond.

Its name, he learned meant

"mountain of light."

He was told it was worth enough

to feed the entire world

for two and half days.

Offered it as a gift,

Babur refused and left it

with his son Humayun.

Suddenly he was less interested in

the riches

than in how to govern

this strange new land.

But as he surveyed Hindustan, his

enthusiasm for it started to melt away.

There is no beauty in its people,

no graceful social intercourse,

no poetic talent or understanding,

no etiquette, nobility or manliness.

The arts and crafts have no harmony

or symmetry.

There is no ice, cold water,

good food or bread in the markets.

The peasantry and common people

parade around stark naked.

Hindustan is a place of little charm.

But Babur was determined

he would build Hindustan into

something worthy of his dynasty.

He would introduce Mughal order

and symmetry

into what seemed to him

a chaotic and senseless land.

He made the princes of Hindustan,

the Rajputs,

submit to him and laid foundations

for the future empire.

And it dawned on Babur that

it was no longer enough to be

a successful conqueror.

To fulfill his dreams for his heirs,

he had to become a wise ruler as well.

A sacrifice to god was necessary.

In an extravagant public ceremony,

Babur swore off drink.

He had his drinking vessels crushed

and distributed the gold and silver

to the poor.

At the age of 43, Babur had achieved

his dream of empire.

He settled into Hindustan and

continued work on his autobiography

the first ever written

in the Moslem world.

I have simply set down what happened.

I have reported every good and evil

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