The Mughal Empire was the dominant power of South Asia for over three centuries, whose synthesis of Persian, Timurid, and Indian cultures produced the Taj Mahal, Mughal miniature painting, and an administrative system that shaped the subcontinent into the colonial era.
The empire ended in 1857: after the Indian Rebellion the last emperor, Bahadur Shah II (Bahadur Shah Zafar), was deposed on 21 September 1857, then tried in 1858 and exiled to Rangoon; the Government of India Act 1858 transferred sovereignty from the East India Company to the British Crown.
The atlas holds 8 border frames for Mughal Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1526 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675 · 1708 · 1739 · 1761 · 1803.
The authoritative single-volume scholarly history of the Mughal Empire in the New Cambridge History of India series.
Major synthesis of South Asian history that places the Mughal cultural and administrative synthesis within the long Persianate transformation of the subcontinent (1000-1765).
A traveler’s tale at Akbar’s court linking Mughal India and Renaissance Europe.