The Mughal Empire ruled over most of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In the early 16th century, a warrior prince named Babur marched east from central ...

The Mughal Empire was one of the most powerful and influential empires in India, thanks to a series of strong and visionary rulers. From Babur, who started the empire, to Shah Jahan, famous for ...

The Mughal Empire ruled India for over 300 years, and each emperor took the throne at different ages. Humayun, born in March 1508, became king in December 1530 after Babur's death. He was just 22 ...

During Mughal rule, that lasted 200 years, India became one of the largest and most prosperous centralised states in ...

deepen and mobilise Mughal power through an empire-wide network of friends and allies. This engaging book, which uses a vast archive of European and Persian sources, takes the reader from the founding ...

Qutub Minar (Qutb Minar) in Delhi is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture and the world's largest minaret at nearly 236 feet high. The first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Qutb-ud-Din Aybak ...

At the age of 53, Gulbadan Begum - daughter of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire - and 11 women from the royal household - left the confines of a harem in Fatehpur Sikri to set off on a journey ...

(Wikimedia Commons) 302pp, Rs799; Hachette Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire in 1525, was as wealthy as the Ming emperor of China. But unlike those who came to plunder India of its ...