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men went to their death; as the fight did not reach to the eastern side of the fort, a few got away there. "The fort taken, we entered and inspected it. On the walls, in houses, streets and alleys, the dead lay, in what numbers! Comers and goers to and fro were passing over the bodies. Returning from our inspection, we sat down in the Bajaur sultan’s residence. The country of Bajaur we bestowed on Khwāja Kalān, assigning a large number of braves to reinforce him. At the Evening Prayer we went back to camp." On 8 January, Babur wrote: "Marching at dawn, we dismounted by the spring of Bābā Qarā in the valley of Bajaur. At Khwāja Kalān’s request the prisoners remaining were pardoned their offences, reunited to their wives and children, and given leave to go, but several sultans and of the most stubborn were made to reach their doom of death. Some heads of sultans and of others were sent to
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were rebels and at enmity with the people of Islam, and as, by reason of the heathenish and hostile customs prevailing in their midst, the very name of Islam was rooted out from their tribe, they were put to general massacre and their wives and children were made captive. At a guess more than 3,000
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when his mother died, but instead said: "Go! lay her on the bier! if she move not, I will have her burned." When she was lad on the bier, the desired movement occurred, and only then Haidar Ali Bajauri put on black and lamented for his mother.
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with the letters-of-victory. Shah Mansur Yusufzai,—he was with us as an envoy from his tribe,— was an eye-witness of the victory and general massacre. We allowed him to leave after putting a coat (
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were following pagan customs, although they were Muslims. Babur claimed that the people of these areas commonly said that when a woman died and was laid on a
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which sat on the strategic hills which threatened his empire. Babur sought peace with the tribe and as part of a peace treaty, Babur married
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On 11 January, Babur wrote: "With mind easy about the important affairs of the Bajaur fort, we marched, on Tuesday, one
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against the tribes inhibiting Bajaur region, on 6–7 January 1519. Babur, a
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enjoyed a relatively calm period when he returned to
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Index

Battle of Bajaur (1519)
Babur
Bajaur
Sultanate of Swat
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
massacre
Timurids
Gibarids
Babur
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Babur
1st Samarkand
2nd Samarkand
3rd Samarkand
Sar-e-Pul
Uzbek Conquest of Samarkand (1501)
Akhsi
Kabul
Masudi Hazaras
1st India
Qalati Ghilji
2nd Turkomen Hazaras
Ghilji
1st Kandahar
2nd Kandahar
Eastern Afghanistan
2nd India

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