From the early 16th century to the 19th century, the Mughal Empire ruled large areas of the Indian subcontinent, which highly ...

Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London.

one that consumed imperial wealth, manpower, and stability. Maratha forces repeatedly struck Mughal supply lines. The siege of Jinji, which took eight years to complete, exemplified the slow and ...

The Battle of Karnal on February 24, 1739 all but sealed the eventual fate of the once mighty Mughal Empire. The army of Nadir Shah ... was the “accumulated wealth of eight generations of imperial ...

Aurangzeb had 49 years to make good on his princely promise of cultivating religious tolerance in the Mughal empire, and he got off to a strong start. In one of his early acts as emperor, Aurangzeb ...

She uses public street taps for washing and shares a kitchen ... The Last Mughal Emperor: A Quick Flashback Bahadur Shah Zafar, Sultana’s great-grandfather-in-law, became the emperor in 1837. By then, ...

The Mughal empire had an annual revenue 1.75 crore pounds (Rs 193.15 crore), while the entire British treasury was worth 1.60 crore pounds at the time. The Mughal emperor’s treasury contained 90 ...

This region remained a source of constant instability for Aurangzeb and the sprawling Mughal Empire. According to later historians, his prolonged military campaigns in the Deccan, particularly ...