The Mughals celebrated their genealogy pictorially, each ruler getting a picture made of Timur and himself. An example of this is a miniature painting (dated 1702-1712) of Timur, his descendants and the Mughal emperors. In the picture, we see Timur is in the centre and on his right is his son Miran Shah (the first Mughal emperor Babur’s great-greatgrandfather) and then Abu Said (Babur’s grandfather). There is also Sultan Muhammad Mirza (Babur’s great-grandfather) and Umar Shaikh (Babur’s father) along with Mughal emperors Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan, Humayun, Jahangir and Aurangzeb.
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