How was the Mogul Empire created?

Answer 1

The Mughal Empire is sometimes spelled in English as the Mogul Empire, and they were invaders into India from Afghanistan, Iran and the Muslim states in Southern Russia, as we would now recognise the places. It is different from the Mongol Emprire which had its origins in China and Siberia, and never got as far as India.

It was a Muslim militarist empire that over-ran the Indian sub-continent for about 300 years from 1520 to 1850. Most of the great architectural legacy in India was created by the Moguls. The Taj Mahal is one of the most famous, dating from about 1640.

The Mughals made war on the Indian tribes and ancestral castes, especially in the Deccan and the Coromandel Coast. By 1680, almost all of India fell under Mughal rule. District governors were set up all over India, known as Nawabs (in crude English nabobs). By the time the British and French arrived in the early 18th century, the Mughals were in decline. They had been attacked and defeated by the Sikhs in the North and the Marathas in the Deccan (West and South). From 1800, the Mughals were not a significant power in India, and the British saw the end of the Empire during the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. By 1860, there were no Mughals in positions of authority. The last of the nawabs Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon in Burma in 1862.