Presentation On Mughal Empire

Presented To: Mrs. Shallu Jindal

Presented By: Maninderjeet Kaur Pupil Teachers Roll No: 1219 Subject : History Topic : Mughal Empire

Shivalik Public School, Patiala

The Mughal Empire

Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent.The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids. The Mughal Empire began in 1526; at the height of their power in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, they controlled most of the Indian Subcontinentextending from Bengal in the east to Balochistan in the west, Kashmir in the north to the Kaveri basin in the south.[5] Its population at that time has been estimated as between 110 and 150 million, over a territory of more than 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles).

Famous Mughal Emperors

Babur

Humayun

Sher Shah Suri

Akbar

Jahagir

Mughal Dynasty
The Mughal dynasty was founded when Babur, hailing from Ferghana (Modern Uzbekistan), invaded parts of northern India and defeated Ibrahim Shah Lodhi, the ruler of Delhi, at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526. The Mughal Empire superseded the Delhi Sultanate as rulers of northern India. In time, the state thus founded by Babur far exceeded the bounds of the Delhi Sultanate, eventually encompassing a major portion of India and earning the appellation of Empire. A brief interregnum (15401555) during the reign of Babur's son, Humayun, saw the rise of the Afghan Suri Dynasty under Sher Shah Suri, a competent and efficient ruler in his own right. However, Sher Shah's untimely death and the military incompetence of his successors enabled Humayun to regain his throne in 1555. However, Humayun died a few months later, and was succeeded by his son, the 13-yearold Akbar the Great.

Mughal Architecture

Decline
After Emperor Aurangzeb's death in 1707, the empire fell into succession crisis. Barring Muhammad Shah, none of the Mughal emperors could hold on to power for a decade. In the 18th century, the Empire suffered the depredations of invaders like Nadir Shah of Persia and Ahmed Shah Abdali of Afghanistan, who repeatedly sacked Delhi, the Mughal capital. Most of the empire's territories in India passed to the Marathas, Nawabs, and Nizams by c.1750. In 1804, the blind and powerless Shah Alam II formally accepted the protection of the British East India Company.

Art

Coins

1ST Mughal Emperor Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur

The Last Mughal Emperor Bhadur Shah -II

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