Jahangir commissioned some of the most powerful allegorical paintings to emerge from the Mughal School. |
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Then in 1708 the last Sikh guru, Gobind Singh was assassinated by a local Mughal commander. |
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He was most tolerant of all Mughal rulers and let his subjects practice their faiths without any fear of persecution. |
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In full bloom, the 15-acre Mughal Gardens has roses, lilies, tulips, double pansy flowers and smooth green lawns. |
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Many artists who were dislodged from the Mughal ateliers during the rule of Aurangzeb, migrated to the Bikaner court in search of new patronage. |
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The fact that Shah Jahan directly oversaw the art production of the Mughal atelier, put his artists under strict imperial control. |
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From campfires of Mughal soldiers to the royal banquet tables of kings and emperors, the kebab has travelled a long way. |
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Subtly impressive was the beautifully banded agate Mughal fly whisk handle, tipped with a garnet on an amber collar and inset with emeralds. |
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The last Mughal king, Bahadur Shah, better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, was born in 1775 at Delhi. |
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On summer evenings the womenfolk of my family would put on their chador and go out for a stroll in one of the Mughal gardens. |
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As wazir, Safdar Jang diverted imperial funds for his own use, so much so that he was accused of impoverishing the Mughal court. |
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With the downfall of the Mughal Empire in the mid 1700s, commerce shifted to the sea ports, and the age of camel caravans drew to a close. |
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They included interpreters, smiths to mint coins, and Munshi to write the king's Persian correspondence to the Mughal governor of Kashmir. |
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However, we have to wait till the reign of Shah Jahan for the full genius of Mughal architecture to come forth. |
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Even in the eighteenth century, when he had lost all power, the Mughal emperor was seen as the natural sovereign of Hindustan. |
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He is bedecked with the crown styled in the Mughal form presented by the former Nizams of Hyderabad as a token of reverence. |
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The Mughal emperor Akbar in 1587 won Kashmir and then it remained with Mughals till 1752, when Afghans won it. |
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It made the Mughal army supremely powerful and effective for close on 150 years. |
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The school authorities had hired a couple of boats to ferry the students to the world famous Mughal garden through Dal Lake. |
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The Mughal artists were superb craftsmen and their draughtsmanship and use of colour showed consummate skill. |
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Their vivid, jewel-like tones were well suited to the tastes of the Mughal court. |
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Chandu Shah, a Banker of Delhi, wielded a lot of influence at the Mughal court. |
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Down here, the Greek, Byzantine, Ottoman, Russian, Mongol, Mughal Empires are footnotes in our history books. |
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Back in 1790, a caravan of Persian carpet weavers, on their way to the Mughal court, was waylaid and injured by dacoits on the Great Deccan Road. |
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His band of desperados specialized in looting feudal landlords and Mughal treasury. |
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A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices. |
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The Ekka and gari or bugee appear to have been developed during the Mughal period. |
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The Mughal army was known to have hundreds of carts carrying cushions and carpets for the tents of the monarch. |
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The Mughal empire had disintegrated and was being replaced by a variety of regional states. |
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This landmark exhibition represents an unprecedented opportunity to experience the sumptuousness and the glamour associated with the Mughal Empire. |
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The first of the Mughal emperors, Babur, in spite of his keen aesthetic sense, did not have the time to embark upon a concerted program of building. |
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The delighted Mughal emperor made him the Nawab of the Carnatic under the suzerainty of the Nizam of Hyderabad and thus were sown the beginnings of the House of Arcot. |
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The Ashburnham hangings are based primarily on English crewel work bed hangings with more freely scrolling tree designs than is found in Mughal floorspreads. |
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However, Mughal supremacy in India was not established till the reign of Akbar and before that there were times when the Mughals were in danger of extinction. |
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His family had been inducted into Mughal hierarchy as amirs. |
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Literate North India, for its part, laments the transformation of a Delhi that was once a byword for elegant poetry, Mughal manners and courtly civilisation. |
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On 10 May 1857, sepoys of the Bengal army shot their British officers and marched on Delhi to restore the aged Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, to power. |
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He footslogged it around the world-famous Dal Lake, visiting all the Mughal Gardens at Nishat, Shalimar and Harwan and the Botanical Gardens, but all in vain. |
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Fine quality gems cut en cabochon were often used to reinterpret Mughal motifs from art of the Mughal Empire, which merged Hindu and Persian elements. |
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The Ghazis of Mughal India used marijuana to induce fearlessness. |
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In the account of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, there is no mention of his liberal social policies, his prohibition of the slave trade and of involuntary sati. |
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He examines ancient texts on elephants and the Mughal miniatures. |
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Poets of the Mughal durbar likened our muslins to baft hawa. |
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The use of Mughal derived from the Arabic and Persian corruption of Mongol, and it emphasised the Mongol origins of the Timurid dynasty. |
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Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule. |
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The restoration of Mughal rule began after Humayun's triumphant return from Persia in 1555, but he died from a fatal accident shortly afterwards. |
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Akbar succeeded to the throne under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped consolidate the Mughal Empire in India. |
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During the reign of Shah Jahan, the culture and splendour of the luxurious Mughal court reached its zenith as exemplified by the Taj Mahal. |
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However, after his death in 1712, the Mughal dynasty sank into chaos and violent feuds. |
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But, according to Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, the Mughal Emperor continued to be the highest manifestation of sovereignty. |
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Thereafter, the British East India Company became the protectors of the Mughal dynasty in Delhi. |
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By 1857 a considerable part of former Mughal India was under the East India Company's control. |
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Delhi was once the capital of the Mughal empire, and it became the birthplace of Mughlai cuisine. |
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After the execution of emperor Farrukhsiyar in 1719, local Mughal successor states took power in region after region. |
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Mughal Viceroys promoted agricultural expansion and turned Bengal into the rice basket of the Indian subcontinent. |
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Mughlai cuisine is a style of cooking developed in the Indian subcontinent by the imperial kitchens of the Mughal Empire. |
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A major Mughal reform introduced by Akbar was a new land revenue system called zabt. |
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Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, also names tulips in the Baburnama. |
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This victory estranged the British and the Mughals, since Siraj Ud Daulah was a Mughal feudatory ally. |
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Geared sugar rolling mills first appeared in Mughal India, using the principle of rollers as well as worm gearing, by the 17th century. |
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Up until the 18th century, Mughal India was the most important center of manufacturing in international trade. |
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Manufactured goods and cash crops from the Mughal Empire were sold throughout the world. |
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European fashion, for example, became increasingly dependent on Mughal Indian textiles and silks. |
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The trade imbalance caused Europeans to export large quantities of gold and silver to Mughal India in order to pay for South Asian imports. |
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On the Indian subcontinent, the Mughal Empire ruled most of India in the early 18th century. |
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Mughal India had a large shipbuilding industry, which was also largely centered in the Bengal province. |
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Under the Mughal system, the land itself belonged to the state and not to the zamindar, who could transfer only his right to collect rent. |
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By the late 18th century, the British displaced the Mughal ruling class in Bengal. |
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The Indian population had a faster growth during the Mughal era than at any known point in Indian history prior to the Mughal era. |
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The increased population growth rate was stimulated by Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production. |
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By the time of Aurangzeb's reign, there were a total of 455,698 villages in the Mughal Empire. |
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The Mughal artistic tradition was eclectic, borrowing from the European Renaissance as well as from Persian and Indian sources. |
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The Mughal empire, which was descended from the Mongol Khanate, was bested by the upcoming Maratha Confederacy. |
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The Indian peninsula in 1700 showing the Mughal Empire and the European trading settlements. |
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Later, the Mysorean rockets were upgraded versions of Mughal rockets used during the Siege of Jinji by the progeny of the Nawab of Arcot. |
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Sake Dean Mahomed had learned much of Mughal chemistry and understood the techniques used to produce various alkali and soaps to produce shampoo. |
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During the decline of the Mughal Empire, the Hindu king Jai Singh II of Amber continued the work of Mughal astronomy. |
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One of the most remarkable astronomical instruments invented in Mughal India is the seamless celestial globe. |
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Characterized by its soft eroticism, mujra was performed by courtesans called tawaif who were an integral part of life in the Mughal court. |
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Extensive textual and pictorial sources also show that poppy cultivation and opium consumption were widespread in Safavid Iran and Mughal India. |
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Lahore, as the occasional residence of Mughal rulers, contains many important buildings from the empire. |
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Merchants and subjects of Mughal rule are known to have traded in Astrakhan. |
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Some of the birds which are captivated here are Munia, Mughal Pigeon, swan, starling, Indian hawk but it has flown away. |
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Close up of Mughal riveted mail and plate coat zirah Bagtar, 17th century, alternating rows of solid rings and round riveted rings. |
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Close up detail of Mughal riveted mail hood kulah zirah, 17th century, alternating rows of round riveted rings and solid rings. |
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The inspiration for the collection has been drawn from aspects of Indian Mughal culture like window grids, Churidaar, Dhoti, etc. |
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Mughal riveted mail and plate coat zirah Bagtar, 17th century, alternating rows of round riveted rings and solid rings. |
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In 1606 the Guru was burnt alive on a hotplate by Mughal Emperor Jahangir in an attempt to have him change religious scriptures. |
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With the decline of Mughal Empire power in the 18th century, both canals fell into disrepair and closed. |
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In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Calcutta were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. |
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Mughal rule ushered economic prosperity, agrarian reform and flourishing external trade, particularly in muslin and silk textiles. |
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The early modern period began in the 16th century, when the Mughal Empire conquered most of the Indian subcontinent. |
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But, his defeat in the Battle of Khanwa consolidated the new Mughal dynasty in India. |
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Guru Arjan was captured by Mughal authorities who were suspicious and hostile to the religious order he was developing. |
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Expanding commerce during Mughal rule gave rise to new Indian commercial and political elites along the coasts of southern and eastern India. |
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Conflict with Mughal authorities escalated during the lifetime of Guru Teg Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh. |
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Meanwhile, in India, the Mughal Empire, with the support of the French, tried to crush a British attempt to conquer Bengal. |
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Under the general Amir Khan Umrao Al Udat, the Mughal Emperor sent 8,000 troops to drive away the 5,000 Maratha cavalry soldiers. |
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Baji Rao, however, easily routed the novice Mughal general and the rest of the imperial Mughal army fled. |
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In 1739, Nader Shah, emperor of Iran, defeated the Mughal army at the Battle of Karnal. |
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The Marathas are credited to a large extent for ending the Mughal rule in India. |
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The Nawabs of Bengal had become the de facto rulers of Bengal following the decline of Mughal Empire. |
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In 1617 the British East India Company was given permission by Mughal Emperor Jahangir to trade in India. |
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In the 18th century, the earliest British of the East India Company acted as agents of the Mughal emperor. |
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The death of Ibrahim Lodi ended the Delhi Sultanate, and the Mughal Empire replaced it. |
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The Sikhs feared reinstatement of Mughal rule in northern India because they had been persecuted heavily in the past by the Mughal dynasty. |
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The Sikh Khalsa's rise to power began in the 17th century during a time of growing militancy against Mughal rule. |
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The rise of the Great Mughal Empire is usually dated from 1526, around the end of the Middle Ages. |
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Akbar, a Mughal ruler for example, sought religious tolerance and abolished jizya. |
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By the 19th century the British Empire had formally ended the Mughal dynasty in India. |
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Many parts of the Indian subcontinent were governed by the East India Company, which nominally acted as the agent of the Mughal Emperor. |
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Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II negotiates with the British East India Company after being defeated during the Battle of Buxar. |
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On the Indian subcontinent, the Delhi Sultanate and the Deccan sultanates would give way, beginning in the 16th century, to the Mughal Empire. |
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In the same way, luxury hardstone carvings such as dagger hilts and cups may be formed as animals, especially in Mughal art. |
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A tawaif was a courtesan who catered to the nobility of South Asia, particularly during the era of the Mughal Empire. |
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The Mughal Empire at its peak extended over nearly all of the Indian subcontinent and large parts of Afghanistan. |
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The establishment of the Mughal Empire, in the early 16th century, influenced some curries, especially in the north. |
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The reign of Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor, between 1628 and 1658, was the golden age of Mughal architecture. |
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As a result of the Mughal rule in the region, the cuisine of Aurangabad has been highly influenced by the North Indian method of cooking. |
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By the early 18th century, Mughal Indian textiles were clothing people across the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. |
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In 1634, the Mughal emperor extended his hospitality to the English traders to the region of Bengal, and in 1717 completely waived customs duties for their trade. |
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However, the company's governor in London, Sir Josiah Child, interfered with Hedges's mission, causing Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to break off the negotiations. |
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In 1689 a Mughal fleet commanded by Sidi Yaqub attacked Bombay. |
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Pakistan's cultural capital, Lahore, contains many examples of Mughal architecture such as Badshahi Masjid, Shalimar Gardens, Tomb of Jahangir and the Lahore Fort. |
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The Baul movement, inspired by Sufism, also emerged under Mughal rule. |
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Mughal Bengal's most celebrated artistic tradition was the weaving of Jamdani motifs on fine muslin, which is now classified by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. |
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The Mughal style replaced indigenous architecture when Bengal became a province of the Mughal Empire and influenced the development of urban housing. |
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, there was frequent European piracy against Mughal Indian merchants, especially those en route to Mecca for Hajj. |
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The area encompassed by modern India was significantly fractured following the decline of the Mughal Empire in the first half of the 18th century. |
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In addition, as under Mughal Empire rule, land revenue collected in the Bengal Presidency helped finance the Company's wars in other parts of India. |
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Marshall shows that recent scholarship has reinterpreted the view that the prosperity of the formerly benign Mughal rule gave way to poverty and anarchy. |
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Marshall notes the British went into partnership with Indian bankers and raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation. |
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Much of Indian architecture, including the Taj Mahal, other works of Mughal architecture, and South Indian architecture, blends ancient local traditions with imported styles. |
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The Mughal Empire continued its wars of expansion after Babur's death. |
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The Mughal Empire was marked by a period of artistic exchanges and a Central Asian and South Asian architecture synthesis, with remarkable buildings such as the Taj Mahal. |
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Soon, a distinctly Persian style of mosques started appearing that would significantly influence the designs of later Timurid, and also Mughal, mosque designs. |
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The country established diplomatic relations with the Safavid dynasty of Persia, Ottomans of Hejaz, Mughal Empire in India, and Ethiopia, as well. |
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Awadh has been greatly influenced by Mughal cooking techniques, and the cuisine of Lucknow bears similarities to those of Central Asia, Kashmir, Punjab and Hyderabad. |
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On the Indian subcontinent, the Great Mughal Empire existed. |
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In the 1800s and early 1900s, once great and powerful Empires such as Spain, Ottoman Turkey, the Mughal Empire, and the Kingdom of Portugal began to break apart. |
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After Mughal ruler Humayun had success against Bahadur, the latter signed another treaty with the Portuguese to confirm the provisions and allowed the fort to be built in Diu. |
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Another innovation, the incorporation of the crank handle in the cotton gin, first appeared in India some time during the late Delhi Sultanate or the early Mughal Empire. |
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Almost all towns in the Mughal empire had a qazi, who was directly appointed by the imperial court, usually on the recommendations of the chief sadr. |
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The Mughal Empire at its greatest extent, in the early 18th century. |
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The reign of Shah Jahan was the golden age of Mughal architecture. |
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India's GDP growth increased under the Mughal Empire, with India's GDP having a faster growth rate during the Mughal era than in the 1,500 years prior to the Mughal era. |
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During the decline of the Mughal Empire, several smaller states rose to fill the power vacuum and themselves were contributing factors to the decline. |
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Bahadur Shah Zafar the last Mughal Emperor, crowned Emperor of India, by the Indian troops, he was deposed by the British, and died in exile in Burma. |
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In spite of the significant loss of power that the Mughal dynasty had suffered in the preceding centuries, their name still carried great prestige across northern India. |
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The British, who had long ceased to take the authority of the Mughal Emperor seriously, were astonished at how the ordinary people responded to Zafar's call for war. |
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The mutiny also spread to Dacca, the former Mughal capital of Bengal. |
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Bahadur Shah was tried for treason by a military commission assembled at Delhi, and exiled to Rangoon where he died in 1862, bringing the Mughal dynasty to an end. |
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The Maratha Empire would in 1818 fall under the control of the British East India Company, with all former Maratha and Mughal authority devolving in 1858 to the British Raj. |
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The incorporation of the worm gear and crank handle into the roller cotton gin led to greatly expanded Indian cotton textile production during the Mughal era. |
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Some Rajput kingdoms continued to pose a significant threat to the Mughal dominance of northwestern India, but most of them were subdued by Akbar. |
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During the following century Mughal power had become severely limited, and the last emperor, Bahadur Shah II, had authority over only the city of Shahjahanabad. |
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Humayun's exile in Persia established diplomatic ties between the Safavid and Mughal Courts, and led to increasing Persian cultural influence in the Mughal Empire. |
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Historians have offered numerous explanations for the rapid collapse of the Mughal Empire between 1707 and 1720, after a century of growth and prosperity. |
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The Indian economy was large and prosperous under the Mughal Empire. |
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Indian agricultural production increased under the Mughal Empire. |
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Mughal agriculture was advanced compared to Europe at the time, such as the common use of the seed drill among Indian peasants before its adoption in European agriculture. |
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Sugar mills appeared in India shortly before the Mughal era. |
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Sikhism developed while the region was being ruled by the Mughal Empire. |
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Bengal was described as the Paradise of Nations by Mughal emperors. |
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The decisive victory of the Timurid forces is one reason opponents rarely met Mughal princes in pitched battle over the course of the empire's history. |
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In 1657, the Mughal Army used rockets during the Siege of Bidar. |
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Naz Khatun, daughter of Kordestan Atabek property that Amir Chuback wanted to occupy is a good example of landownership and wealth gathered by women in Mughal period. |
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Resistance to decadent Mughal rulers, Marathas, Afghans, Sikhs and, finally, the British brought freedom though not, it has to be said, instant democracy. |
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Sinopia, the drawing that underlies European frescoes, does reveal structural information, but the relation of Sikander's drawings to Mughal art is more complex. |
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Alan Sprunt from Coventry Peace House, made his point, while Thalia Porretta, aged 18 months, and Yumnaa Mughal, aged three, enjoyed the children's entertainment. |
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Mr Mughal said children's contact with technology from an early age without monitoring from parents could mean they are more suspectable to injury. |
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He cites the Douglass Mughal 'Millefleurs' prayer rug, which was probably commissioned for the court and produced by a specialist workshop in Lahore or Kashmir. |
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This trend brought into circulation in the Mughal atelier the combined aesthetic sensibilities of the Franks and the Turks, also introducing local Indic elements. |
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