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 pen name he used, Zafar, means victory. An illustration depicting the arrest of Bahadur Shah Zafar The great Mughal empire had lost much of its influence and territory by the end of the 1700s.