Actually, it is also timurlane or tamerlane - it is a corruption of timur-e-lang, or timur the lame. Now, Afghans are NOT mongols or turko-mongols. They are Indo-iranian. Have you seen what Uzbeks (Fergana, Babur's homeland is now in Uzbekistan) look like? They have mongoloid features. Look at paintings of Babur, for example. The people who invaded Persia, destroying the persian civilization (which Nair alludes to in his parsi exodus) were Arabs. Nadir Shah et al were Persians. Ghazni, Ghouri etc were Afghan pashtuns, nothing to do with Mongols. Get your facts straight.
I'm not buying everything he said, but your knowledge of history and genealogy are quite shallow.
