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 ...
For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian ...
Nur Jahan was the only female ruler in the Mughal dynasty Empress Nur Jahan was the most powerful woman in 17th Century India. She played an unprecedented role in running the vast Mughal empire.
At the age of 53, Gulbadan Begum - daughter of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire - and 11 women from the royal household - left the confines of a harem in Fatehpur Sikri to set off on a journey ...