Zahir ud-din Babar, who founded the famous Timurid Mughal Dynasty

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On 12th of the Islamic month of Jamadi as-Sani in 933 AH, Zahir ud-din Babar, who founded the famous Timurid Mughal Dynasty of the Subcontinent, defeated a huge Rajput army of 100,000 soldiers and one thousand well trained elephants, led by Rana Sanga, the Rajah of Mewar, who was assisted by the Khanzada Muslim Rajputs and the India-based Afghan warlords.
This victory, a year after his historic win over Ibrahim Lodhi at Panipat, earned him the title Ghazi. To fulfill his vow before the decisive battle, Babar ordered his Iranian minister, Mir Abdul-Baqi, to build the famous Babari Mosque on a vacant piece of land in what is now Fayzabad. This historic mosque was destroyed in 1992 by vandals on the pretext that it was founded on the ruins of a temple, a claim which both historians and archeologists categorically reject.