‘Barburs [sic] Garden, Kabul, 1879 (b/w photo)

‘Barburs [sic] Garden, Kabul, 1879. Photograph by John Burke, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1879. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), the first Mughal Emperor, wished to be interred in his favourite city of Kabul, but was first buried in a mausoleum in Agra. Around ten years later his body was transferred by Sher Shah Suri to a beautiful garden on the western slopes of the Sher-e-Darwaza mountain to the south of Kabul. Further additions to the garden and tomb were made by the Emperors Jehangir and Shahjahan, who built a mosque there in 1650. The Persian inscription on Babur’s tomb reads: ‘If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this’. From an album of 101 photographs by John Burke.