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Mughal Period: Muslim Dynasty

The Mughal Empire was established in the 16th century in northern India by a Muslim dynasty of Turco-Mongol origin from Central Asia. At its peak, the Mughal Empire extended over most of northern and central India, as well as parts of Afghanistan, and was the second largest empire in India after the Maurya Empire. The Mughals claimed descent from both Genghis Khan and Timur and introduced Persian culture to India, though they allowed religious tolerance and cultural diversity to flourish under emperors like Akbar.

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Mughal Period: Muslim Dynasty

The Mughal Empire was established in the 16th century in northern India by a Muslim dynasty of Turco-Mongol origin from Central Asia. At its peak, the Mughal Empire extended over most of northern and central India, as well as parts of Afghanistan, and was the second largest empire in India after the Maurya Empire. The Mughals claimed descent from both Genghis Khan and Timur and introduced Persian culture to India, though they allowed religious tolerance and cultural diversity to flourish under emperors like Akbar.

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Mughal period

The MUGHAL EMPIRE


in the Indian subcontinent,
established and ruled by
a Muslimdynasty of Chaga
tai Turco-Mongol origin
from Central Asia. The
dynasty, though ethnically
Turco-Mongol,
was Persianate in terms of
culture.
The Mughal empire
extended over large parts of
the Indian subcontinent
and Afghanistan. The empire
at its peak, was the second
largest to have existed in the
Indian subcontinent,
spanning 4 million square
kilometres at its zenith, after
the Maurya Empire, which
spanned 5 million square
kilometres.
The beginning of the empire
is conventionally dated to the
victory by its
founder Babur over Ibrahim
Lodi, the last ruler of
the Delhi Sultanate, in
the First Battle of
Panipat (1526). The Mughal
emperors were Central Asian
Turco-Mongols belonging to
the Timurid dynasty, who
claimed direct descent from
both Genghis Khan (founder
of the Mongol Empire,
through his son Chagatai
Khan) and Timur (Turco-
Mongol conqueror who
founded the Timurid Empire).
During the reign
of Humayun, the successor
of Babur, the empire was
briefly interrupted by the Sur
Empire. The "classic period"
of the Mughal Empire started
in 1556 with the ascension
of Akbar the Great to the
throne. Under the rule of
Akbar and his son Jahangir,
the region enjoyed economic
progress as well as religious
harmony, and the monarchs
were interested in local
religious and cultural
traditions. Akbar was a
successful warrior who also
forged alliances with several
Hindu Rajput kingdoms.
Some Rajput kingdoms
continued to pose a
significant threat to the
Mughal dominance of
northwestern India, but most
of them were subdued by
Akbar. All Mughal
emperors were Muslims;
while Akbar was Muslim
most of his life, he
propounded a syncretic
religion in the latter part of
his life recorded in historical
books like AIN I AKBARI.

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