Babur, who laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India, was also called gay. This has been mentioned in his biography Baburnama. Babur has written many poems for his homosexual friend.
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in country gay marriage issue of giving legal sanction to Supreme Court has reached. The central government is opposing it and many arguments have been given behind doing so. It was said that people of two same genders cannot live as husband and wife. Even though there is a debate going on about gay marriage today, it is not a matter of today. Mughals Such relations used to be common even in the era of
Babur, who laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India, was also called gay. This has been mentioned in his biography Baburnama. Babur has written many poems for his homosexual friend.
this is how we met
Babar was not particularly interested in marriage. A daughter was born after three years of marriage with wife Ayesha, but she died within just 40 days. After this shock, Babar separated himself from his wife and started living in seclusion to forget the sorrow.He was passing through the market during his retreat when he met Babri. The king was attracted to see that 14-year-old boy. In Baburnama, the emperor has written that I became mad for that boy. As soon as he used to come closer, my tongue used to falter.
He used to meet his wife Ayesha in one to one and a half months, but this also stopped after meeting Babri. When Ayesha came to know about this, there was a fight between the two. Things got so bad that Babur divorced the Begum. However, some historians believe that Babur’s elder sister Rabia Sultan Begum was also the reason for the divorce.
Babar fell in love with a boy at the age of 17
It is written in the Baburnama that at the age of 17, Babur fell in love with a boy. The name of that boy was Babri Andijani. Attracted to him. In his biography, Babar wrote that he developed an attachment to a boy named Babri in the Urdu market. I had never felt such attraction with anyone before meeting him. Whenever he used to come in front of me, I could not even look at him directly due to shame.
In the report of OpIndia, Heramba Chaturvedi of Allahabad University, who has studied Baburnama, says that Babur mentioned many shortcomings of his wives. He described his wife as stubborn and a fighter. He used to pray to Allah to save a true Muslim from angry and disgruntled wives.
given the responsibility of handling the stables
According to another report, Babri was a slave, who was captured and brought from another place. In 1499, Babar did the work of rescuing him from Camp Bazar of Uzbekistan. Due to living in the city of Andijan, this word was attached to his name. Historians may have mentioned very little about Babri in their documents, but in Baburnama, the emperor has expressed his love for him several times.
Wrote poems in his love. It was Babar who taught him horse riding and gave him the responsibility of handling the stables. Gradually he became Babur’s most trusted person. Babri had to leave his empire in May 1507 for disobeying Babur’s order, although he returned again in 1522.
Babri Masjid named after lover
Babur assumed the throne of Delhi in 1526. Age was around 37 years. Babri’s death happened when the emperor was trying to extend the empire towards Awadh after Delhi. This was a big blow for Babur. When the mosque was built in Ayodhya in 1528, when the commander informed Babur about it, the emperor named it after his lover Babri.
