Editing Babur (section)

==Religious policy==
Babur defeated and killed [[Ibrahim Lodi]], the last Sultan of the [[Lodi dynasty]], in 1526. Babur ruled for 4 years and was succeeded by his son [[Humayun]] whose reign was temporarily usurped by the [[Suri dynasty]]. During their 30-year rule, religious violence continued in India. Records of the violence and trauma, from Sikh-Muslim perspective, include those recorded in [[Sikhism|Sikh]] literature of the 16th century.<ref name=johnhinnells>{{cite book |last1=Hinnells |first1=John |last2=King |first2=Richard |title=Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice |year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-37291-6 |pages=101–114}}</ref> The violence of Babur in the 1520s was witnessed by [[Guru Nanak]], who commented upon it in four hymns.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Historians suggest the early Mughal period of religious violence contributed to introspection and then the transformation in Sikhism from pacifism to militancy for self-defense.<ref name=johnhinnells/> According to Babur's autobiography, ''[[Baburnama]]'', his campaign in northwest India targeted Hindus and Sikhs as well as apostates (non-Sunni sects of Islam), and an immense number were killed, with Muslim camps building "towers of skulls of the infidels" on hillocks.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Elliot |editor-first1=H. M. |editor-link1=Henry Miers Elliot |editor-last2=Dowson |editor-first2=John |editor-link2=John Dowson |translator-last1=Leyden |translator-first1=John |translator-link1=John Leyden |translator-last2=Erskine |translator-first2=William |translator-link2=William Erskine (historian) |year=1872 |chapter=Tuzak-i Babari |trans-chapter=The Autobiography of Babur |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924073036745/page/n285/mode/1up |title=The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians |title-link=The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians |volume=IV |location=London |publisher=Trübner and Co. |pages=272, 275}}</ref>  In Babur's secret will, in the year 935AH, 1529 AD, to Humayun, Babur advises Humayun to administer justice according to the ways of every religion, avoid sacrifice of the cow, not to ruin the temples and shrines of any law obeying community, overlook the dissensions of the [[Shia Islam|Shias]] and the [[Sunni Islam|Sunnis]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Prasad |first=Rajendra |title=India Divided |publisher=[[Hind Kitabs Ltd.]] |edition=3rd |pages=38–39}}</ref>