„Gengis Khan e i suoi mongoli erano crudeli e distruttivi, ma come gli altri della loro epoca. Tamerlano, però, era di gran lunga peggiore. Si distingue per sfrenata e diabolica crudeltà.“
— Sri Jawaharlal Nehru, libro Glimpses of World History
Chengiz Khan and his Mongols were cruel and destructive, but they were like others of their time. But Timur was much worse. He stands apart for wanton and fiendish cruelty.
Origine: Glimpses of World History, p. 247