The Mughal empire's most famous legacy is ... was worth as much in rupees as his armory. An animated map in the exhibit shows the empire expanding from Kabul and Lahore to Calcutta, then ...

A modern day map of India showing where Lahore and Delhi are located After Babur died, his son Humayun became emperor. At this time, the Mughal Empire was still growing and needed a strong ...

William Baffin’s map of the Mughal Empire. London: Thomas Sterne, 1619. Earlier, in 1614, the East India Company had requested sea captain Nicholas Downton, about to set sail for India ...

In the records of Indian history, few events stand as boldly as the Battle of Karnal, fought on February 24, 1739. This was ...

They referred to themselves as Timurids (descendants of the Turkish ruler Timur). The Mughal Empire was the most influential dynasty that ruled over the Indian subcontinent before colonial rule.

First, the breakup of the Mughal Empire starting in the 1680s fits global patterns of military-logistics overstretch, that is, pushing ambitions of state growth further and faster than what the ...

By the time of Zafar’s coronation in 1837, the Mughal empire had shrunk to the capital ... Minister Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the national flag from the ramparts of the fort to mark the first ...