Mughal dynasty
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The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل; Dudmân-e Mughal) was an imperial dynasty,[1][2][3][4] which comprised the members of the imperial House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر; Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), also known as the Gurkanis (Persian: گورکانیان; Gūrkāniyān).[5] They ruled the Mughal Empire from c. 1526 to 1857.
The Mughal dynasty is generally divided into the following:
Early or Great Mughals
[change | change source]- Babur (reigned 1526-1530) founded the dynasty;
- Humayun (r: 1530-1540, then interregnum,[6] then back in 1555-1556)
- Akbar the Great (1556-1605)
- Jahangir (1606-1627)
- Shah Jahan (1628-1658)
- Aurangzeb Alamgir (1658-1707)
Later or Lesser Mughals
[change | change source]- Shah Alam Bahadur Shah I (1707-1712)
- Jahandar Shah (1712-1713)
- Farrukhsiyar (1713-1719)
- Muhammad Shah Rangeela (1719-1748)
- Ahmad Shah (1748-1754)
- Alamgir II (1754-1759)
- Shah Alam II (1759-1806)
- Akbar (Shah) II (1806-1837)
- Bahadur Shah Zaffar II (1837-1858)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Petersen, Andrew. Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. p. 198.
The Mughals were an Indian Islamic dynasty which ruled most of northern India (including the area of present-day Pakistan) from the beginning of the six- teenth to the mid-eighteenth century.
- ↑ The Limits of Universal Rule Eurasian Empires Compared. p. 276.
From the time of Akbar, who resurrected the Mughal polity, to the last formidable Mughal ruler Aurangzeb (1658-1707), Mughal preoccupation with the Deccan was the single most important sign of the fact that these Timurids had become an Indian dynasty.
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Babur, the founder of the Indian Mughal dynasty, was born in the Ferghana Valley.
- ↑ Lorentz, John. The A to Z of Iran. p. 283.
As the 17th century unfolded, the Safavid rulers not only had the Ottomans to contend with, but also the new Russian Mus- covy that had deposed of the Golden Horde and expanded to Safavid borders, as well as the Indian Mughal Dynasty that had expanded through Afghanistan and into Iranian territory.
- ↑ Zahir ud-Din Mohammad (10 September 2002). Thackston, Wheeler M. (ed.). The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. New York: Modern Library. p. xlvi. ISBN 978-0-375-76137-9.
In India the dynasty always called itself Gurkani, after Temür's title Gurkân, the Persianized form of the Mongolian kürägän, 'son-in-law,' a title Temür assumed after his marriage to a Genghisid princess.
- ↑ In which Sher Shah Suri the Pashtun soldier and his successors briefly took over the government