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	Mughal - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The dynasty was founded by Babur, a Turkish chieftain who had his base in Afghanistan.
		Mughal expansion continued under Akbar's son Jahangir and under his grandson Shah Jahan, who built many architectural marvels at Delhi and at Agra (including the Taj Mahal).
		Many features of the Mughal administrative system were adopted by Great Britain in ruling India, but the most lasting achievements of the Mughals were in art and architecture (see Mughal art and architecture).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mughal.html (440 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mughal is the Persian word for Mongol, and was generally used to refer to Central Asian nomads who claimed descent from the Mongol warriors of Genghis Khan.
		In October 1627, Shah Jahan, the son of Mughal Emperor Jahangir and Rajput princess Manmati, succeeded to the throne, where he inherited a vast and rich empire in India; and at mid-century this was perhaps the greatest empire in the world.
		The Mughal emperor Akbar is remembered as tolerant, at least by the standards of the day: only one major massacre was recorded during his long reign (1556-1605), when he ordered most of the captured inhabitants of a fort be slain on February 24, 1568, after the battle for Chitor.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mughal_Empire (4318 words)

	WHKMLA : Narrative : History of the Mughal Empire
		Aurangzeb's decision to end the culture of religious tolerance at the Mughal court and revert to a strict implementation of Islam alienated both the Hindus and the Sikhs.
		Mughal armies now resembled a tent city, moving at a pace of perhaps 15 km a day and requiring a lot of food and money to be maintained.
		The Mughals were great admirers of architecture, had the Forts of Agra and Lahore built, the Red Fort of Delhi remodelled, the Taj Mahal and a number of mosques and masjids built.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/india/narrmughalempire.html (1177 words)

	Women of the Mughal Dynasty
		The land of the Mughal dynasty was subsequently lost by Babur’s son, Humayun (r.1530-1540; 1555-1556), in a war with the neighboring sultanate in Afghanistan in 1540.
		Akbar expanded the dynasty to twice the size of what it was when he first became ruler.
		Their patronage accounts to the influential position women in the Mughal Dynasty were able to achieve.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/arthistory/ah369/Intropg2.htm (687 words)

	History of India 2 - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Slave dynasty managed to conquer large areas of northern India approximate to the ancient extent of the Guptas, while the Khilji Empire was also able to conquer most of central India, but they were ultimately unsuccessful in conquering most of the subcontinent, until the onset of the Mughals.
		The Mughal Dynasty ruled most of the Indian subcontinent by 1600; it went into a slow decline after 1707 and was finally defeated during the Indian rebellion of 1857.
		Shivaji had declared war upon the oppressive Mughal dynasty in order for the Hindu majority of the subcontinent to once again be free of the various Islamic dynasties that had appeared over the last 600 years.
	www.crystalinks.com /indiahistory2.html (1455 words)

	The Indian Empires
		Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was born in Andijan in the Ferghana valley in 1483.
		The Mughal army captured and held Balkh for a year and a half, but was unable to penetrate further and ultimately abandoned the effort, withdrawing under humiliating circumstances in 1647 and returning the region to Nazr Muhammad's control.
		Hasan hopes the Mughal intentions are to recover their 'ancestral burial grounds' (gurkhana-imawriahi), and promises Safavid troop support from the Khorasan regiments under his command."' He appears to have received a reassuring response, that indeed Shah Jahan's presence in Kabul signalled only his intent to recover the 'burial grounds of the great ancestors' (gurkhana-yi-ajdad-i-'izam).
	www.globaled.org /nyworld/materials/india/thetimurid.html (8536 words)

	Indian History - Muslim Period in India
		Mughal dynasty started with Babur ascending the throne of Agra in 1526 A.D. In the beginning his rule in India Babur had to face the problems of the Rajputs and the Afghan chiefs.
		The vast Mughal Empire, which the biggest of all the empires existing then, was divided among the three sons.
		The dynasty ruled for about 150 years till 1486, when one of their chiefs Narasimha Saluva deposed the last ruler of Sangama dynasty and seized the throne.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /history/muslim_history.htm (3881 words)

	Delhi - The Mughals
		The Mughals were a Muslim dynasty founded by Babar (reigned 1526 - 1530), a descendant of the Turkic conqueror Timur and of Changatai, second son of the Mongol Genghis Khan.
		The dynasty is notable for about two centuries for the ability of its rulers, who through seven generations maintained a record of unusual talent and for its administrative organization.
		This tunnel connects the Mughal establishment at Fatehpur Sikri, the Agra Fort, The Red Fort and the Mughal establishment at Lahore, which is now in Pakistan.
	www.geocities.com /asimshankar/delhi/mughal.html (790 words)

	The Mughal Legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Mughals were Central Asian descendents of the great Mongol warriors Ghengis Khan and Timur (Tamerlane), whose hordes of cavalry swept across the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries, conquering everything between Beijing and Budapest.
		Babur (1526-1530) and the rise of the Mughals
		Aurangzeb (1658-1707) and the decline of the Mughals
	www.edwebproject.org /india/mughals.html (254 words)

	The Mughal Dynasty - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat.
		Aurangzeb was not the ruler to restore the dynasty's declining fortunes or glory.
		Awe-inspiring but lacking in the charisma needed to attract outstanding lieutenants, he was driven to extend Mughal rule over most of South Asia and to reestablish Islamic orthodoxy by adopting a reactionary attitude toward those Muslims whom he suspected of compromising their faith.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4153&mode=linear (2261 words)

	Art/Museums: Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Mughal emperors certainly knew how to live, and were responsible for raising Islamic culture to perhaps the greatest heights it ever achieved; their devotion to poetry, literature, philosophy and the arts and sciences as well as their success in battle and territorial gains was legendary.
		The "kundan" style dominates the show, and is the essence of "Mughal" jewelry design: Akbar's minister and historian Abu `l-Fazl said of "kundan" that "the gold of the inlayer was made so pure and ductile that the fable of the gold of Parviz which he could mould with his hands becomes credible," the catalogue noted.
		Aurangzeb's reign marked the beginning of the end of the Mughal dynasty in India; the peace and prosperity of his forefathers was overshadowed by austerity and the fanatical influence of religious Muslims.
	www.thecityreview.com /mughal.html (3549 words)

	MUGHAL MONARCHS
		An Introduction to the Mughal Dynasty and Mughal Agra
		Babur, the first mughal emperor, was a descendant of the Turkish conqueror Timur on his father's side and of the Mongol (in Persian, mughal) conqueror Genghis Khan on his mother's side, Invaded India from Afghanistan and founded the Mughal Empire on the ruin of the Delhi Sultanate.
		Although Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire, ruled only for four brief years, he left his impress on all that was to follow.
	members.tripod.com /TajMahal201/monarchs.htm (1659 words)

	Mughal Empire
		The Mughals were a Muslim power governing a basically Hindu country, but the greatest of their emperors, Akbar, managed to enlist the cooperation of Hindu leaders in conquering and governing virtually the whole of the Indian subcontinent.
		The Mughals were an Islamic dynasty that ruled large parts of India from the early 16th century until the middle of the 18th.
		In 1638 the Persian governor of Kandahar surrendered that fortress to the Mughals.
	members.tripod.com /~BLye/index6.html (1684 words)

	Twilight of the Mughal Dynasty
		Despite a superiority in number, the Mughal forces were easily defeated by the Persians.
		Brend writes that the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, was deposed in 1858; India was brought under the direct rule of the British Crown.
		The Mughals left behind a distinctive and elegant style of architecture, write Blair and Bloom, in which indigenous traditions of Indo-Islamic architecture were combined with forms and techniques imported from Iran and Central Asia.
	www.islamicart.com /library/empires/india/twilight.html (592 words)

	The Legacy of Islamic Empires and their Arts
		According to historian Gavin Hambly, the Mughals provided the setting for a brilliant court and a vigorous cultural life which was equal to Isfahan under the Safavid Shahs or Istanbul under the Ottoman Sultans.
		Their dynasty was the greatest, richest and longest-lasting Muslim dynasty to rule India.
		The Mughal state was well aware of the declamatory power of architecture and used it as a means of self-representation and an instrument of royalty, write scholars Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom (1994).
	www.islamicart.com /library/empires/india/index.html (377 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine : `Delhi was the main theatre of action'
		William Dalrymple's book deals with the tragic end of the dynasty against the catastrophic backdrop of the fall of Mughal Delhi, brutalised by revengeful British troops that seemed bent not merely on recapturing a city but also apparently on destroying a civilisation.
		Zafar was emperor at a time when the Mughal dynasty was in decline, an emperor only in name.
		The contradiction between what happened in 1992, a Hindu rising against a Mughal symbol [the Babri Masjid], and what happened in 1857, when upper caste Hindus went to put a Mughal back on the throne, is certainly worth exploring.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2006/10/29/stories/2006102900030100.htm (1711 words)

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		The era of the sultanate (from 1206 to 1526) is often referred to as the medieval period of Indian history, partly because of correspondence in time to the conventional classification of European history, and partly because of certain analogies in spirit of the two historical epochs.
		The beginnings of Mughal rule followed a familiar pattern: an adventurous chieftain in the mountainous areas to the northwest, attracted by possibilities of wealth and power during a period of internal weakness in India, gathered his forces for a sudden descent upon the Punjab.
		While it is too late to change the long-accepted nomenclature, it is worth remembering that the Mughal dynasty was Turkish in origin, and the cultural tradition which Babur imported into India was the one which had flourished on the banks of the Oxus.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/ikram/part2_10.html (2947 words)

	Manas: Culture, Architecture of India, Mughal
		he Mughal dynasty was established with the crushing victory of Babur at Panipat in 1526.
		Babur's son Humayun was dissolute and wayward in his early years and the Mughal empire fell to the Suris in 1540.
		The tomb of Sher Shah Suri is an architectural masterpiece that was to have a profound impact on the evolution of Indo-Islamic funerary architecture.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Culture/Archit/Mugarch.html (605 words)

	Dance
		All forms of Indian classical dances during the Mughal dynasties owed allegiance to Natya Sastra as the fifth Veda.
		Mughal dance also contains deliberations on the different kinds of postures: the mudras or hand formations and their meanings; the kind of emotions and their categorisation; and costumes, staging, ornaments and audience.
		The fascination for Mughal Indian dance is indicative of the innate necessity to use the human body as means of expressing and celebrating the great universal truths.
	sun.menloschool.org /~crich/mughal/dance.html (429 words)

	mughal
		The Mughal Dynasty is a line of Muslim Emperors who reigned in India from 1526 to 1858.
		From his mother's side Babur was descended from the famous Genghiz Khan Babur came to India in 1526 at the request of an Indian governor who sought Babar's help in his fight against Ibrahim Lodi, the last head of the Delhi Sultanate.
		When Aurangzeb became the Emperor, in the early years of his long reign (1658-1707), the Mughal Empire further expanded, but by the later part of the seventeenth century the empire was beginning to disintegrate.
	www.cyber.net.pk /schools/html/mughal.html (728 words)

	Article-India and the Mughal Dynasty
		The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720.
		The Babur-nama undoubtedly provided the most entertaining texts.This certainly isn't the be all end all of Mughal history, but that's not what this book is attempting to be.
		This one on the Mughal empire is an absolute delight - even though the final days of the Mughals India are treated only very briefly.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_india_and_the_mughal-0810928566.htm (736 words)

	Tourism of India - Holiday Ideas
		The dynasty Babur founded was named Mughal, a distorted reference to their Mongol ancestry.
		He was succeeded in AD 1530 by his son Humayun, an engaging but irresolute monarch who temporarily lost control of the empire and so nearly ended the Mughal dynasty almost as soon as it had begun.
		Although the Mughals were foreign invaders, they did not impose an alien architecture on the Indian landscape.
	www.tourismofindia.com /hiwhh/mughals.htm (844 words)

	The Real Akbar. The (not) So Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Akbar is considered as the great Mughal emperor who put the Mughal empire on a firm and stable footing, with a reliable revenue system and with expansion of its borders deeper into Indian heartland.
		In fact, it remained a firm tenet of Mughal policy throughout the next century that fortifications of Chitod, which till then was the capital of the then strongest Hindu Rana, should remain unrepaired, perhaps as a lesson to Hindus who dared to take on the Mughals (5).
		The Mughals were the descendents of brutal Mongol Chengiz Khan and the Turk Timur Lane.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/modern/akbar_vs.html (2420 words)

	Last_Mughals_of_India_in_Hyderabad
		The Mughal dynasty that ruled India for 332 has since been lost in the mists of time.
		The most interesting part of the film is devoted to the 88-year-old Begum who lives in a rented house in Asmangadh in Hyderabad along with her sons and grandchildren ---the fifth and sixth generation of Zafar.
		Until recently, not even their neighbours were privy to the fact that they are the direct descendents of Mughals.
	www.the-south-asian.com /May2004/last_mughals_of_india_in_hyderabad.htm (1129 words)

	The Mughals
		Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor, was considered to be the greatest of the Mughals.
		The decline of the empire began with the sixth emperor, Aurangzeb, whose repressive zeal is said to have weakened the foundations of the empire.
		The word mughal is a Persian variation of the word mongol and clearly chosen by Babur to emphasize his ancestry.
	www.umdnj.edu /~humayun/mughals.html (462 words)

	The Great Mughal Emperors of India 1526 - 1707
		One of the secrets of the success of the greatest of the Mughal Emperors like Akbar was their religious tolerance, and indeed their enthusiasm for embracing all the religious groups within their domains.
		The greatest of the Mughal Emperors, Akbar, was born in exile and ascended the throne at the age of 13 after his father's short restoration.
		Just a generally unpleasant little man as far as most of the population were concerned, and it is not surprising that his 50 year reign was the beginning of the end for the Mughal dynasty.
	www.paradoxplace.com /Insights/Civilizations/Mughals/Mughals.htm (1846 words)

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