His Mongol cousins he abhors and considers brutish savages and would have been aghast to know that the Persianized word for Mongols was what his dynasty would be wrongly called—the Mughals. Babur’s people always refer to themselves as Gurkani, the Persianized form of guregen, ‘son-in-law’, which was one of the titles of Amir Timur.
