In the year 1712, the Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah, a grandson of Aurangzeb sent gifts to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad III and refereed to himself as the Ottoman Sultan's devoted admirer.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

Magazine, the city's Museum, was once the residence of Prince Salīm, the son of the Emperor Akbar, and presently houses a collection of Mughal and Rajput armour and sculpture.

Jaivana | Jaivan Cannon-World's largest Cannon on wheels, which was cast in India during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah by his Kiladar, Jai Singh II.

During the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar, it became a proper productive unit.

In the 16th century, in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, his chronicler Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarak wrote in the famous Ain-i-Akbari:

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

In September 1688, the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb took Golconda after a prolonged battle.

The newly designated Mughal Subedar of the province immediately sent a letter to the British authorities at Fort St George demanding that the English at Madras acknowledge the overlordship of the Mughal Emperor.

Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, hunting deer using a Matchlock as the sun sets in the horizon.

But it was the Mughal Emperor Akbar who mass produced matchlocks in the Mughal Army.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan is known to have introduced much more advanced Matchlocks, their designs were a combination of Ottoman and Mughal designs.

In 1617 the British East India Company was given permission by Mughal Emperor Jahangir to trade in India.

After the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the company acquired the rights of administration in Bengal from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II ; this marked the beginning of its formal rule, which within the next century engulfed most of India and extinguished the Moghul rule and dynasty.

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

The Mughal Emperor Humayun, fights Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, in the year 1535.

Sher Shah Suri, the usurper to the rule of Mughal Emperor Humayun.

Salim Nuruddin Jahangir ( 20 September 1569 – 8 November 1627 ) was the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 until his death in 1627.

Jahangir was the eldest son of Mughal Emperor Akbar and was declared successor to his father from an early age.

Mughal Emperor Jahangir, on an Elephant Howdah.

In the year 1623, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, sent his Tahwildar, Khan Alam to Safavid Persia, accompanied by 800 Sepoys, scribes and scholars along with 10 Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with Abbas I of Persia after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

Babar, the founder of the Mughal dynasty, was the namesake for the mosque.

* Babur ( also spelled Baber or Babar ), 16th-century ruler of Indian subcontinent and founder of the Mughal Empire

This can be distinguished from Babur or Babar (), the first Mughal emperor of medieval India.

It can with more certainty be traced to the beginning of the Mughal Dynasty in the early fifteenth century, when the last successor of Timur, Babar, extended his rule from Kabul to India to found the Mughal Empire.

In the time of Jalal Khan's grandsons, Alu Khan and Khizr Khan, the Lodi dynasty was overthrown by Babar ; and the Lodis of Ludhiana sunk to the position of ordinary subjects of the Mughal empire.

The Afridis were first mentioned in the memoirs of Mughal Emperor Babar, as a violent tribe in need of subduing ..

In 1505 the Mughal emperor Babar invaded the area through Khyber Pass.

During the flourishing period of the Mughal dynasty, the Gakhar chieftains were among the most prosperous and loyal vassals of the house of Babar, but after the collapse of the Mughal empire, Jhelum came under the rule of the Sikhs.

Notable visitors include Sikandar Lodi and the Mughal emperor Babar ( 1520 – 1530 ).

A weakened Sultanate was later conquered by the Mughal king Babar, a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from Fergana Valley ( modern day Uzbekistan ).

Much romance has gathered around his name, and the tale of his illicit relationship with the Mughal courtesan, Anarkali, has been widely adapted into the literature, art and cinema of India.

The diamond has belonged to various Hindu, Rajput, Mughal, Iranian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it and seized it as a spoil of war time and time again.

Dari has contributed to the majority of Persian borrowings in other Asian languages, such as Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc., as it was the administrative, official and cultural language of the Persocentric Mughal Empire and served as the lingua franca throughout the South Asian subcontinent for centuries.

The name used for the region during the middle ages and up until the 20th century was Afghanistan, which has been mentioned by the 6th century Indian astronomer & mathematician Varahamihira, 7th century Chinese pilgrim Hiven Tsiang, 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Batutta, Mughal Emperor Babur, 16th century historian Firishta and many others.

By 1738 the Mughal Empire has been defeated by forces of a new Turkmen ruler from Greater Khorasan, Nader Shah.

The tradition of the Persian miniature has been dominant since about the 13th century, strongly influencing the Ottoman miniature of Turkey and the Mughal miniature in India.

There has also been Islamic influence from the years of Mughal and Delhi Sultanate rule, as well as Persian interactions on North Indian and Deccani cuisine.

The Architecture during the Mughal Period has shown a very good blend of Indian style with the Iranian style.

Legend has it, that Mughal emperors would often play with real life guards as their pawns.

Delhi, Hyderabad and Bhopal has multiple working Turkish Baths, which were started during Mughal period in early 16th century.

The Eurasian Sparrowhawk has been used in falconry for centuries and was favoured by Emperor Akbar the Great ( 1542 – 1605 ) of the Mughal Empire.

The museum also has decorative artefacts such as textiles, ivories, Mughal jades, silver, gold and artistic metal ware.

The nature of industry here is varied and vast with major part of light engineering industry besides textile, leather, electrical engineering, auto industry. ceramics, cutlery, manufacturing plants and large agricultural processing plants and many others. The major development is that the manufacturers of quality products have devolved on exports, Its annual export is 700 million $. Apart from export, the industry has lowered the import bill to around 1. 2 billion dollars by producing items locally that were previously imported from other countries. The major industrial companies in Gujranwala include Sunny Sports ( manufacturers of high quality exercise equipment ), Master Industries, Super Asia Industry ( also awned Hardees restaurant in Pakistan ), Mughal Steels, Paklite, Pakson ( Boss ), Sonex, Gujranwala food Industries ( JOJO ).

Sialkot has, since its foundation, changed hands from Hindu, Buddhist, Persian, Greek, Afghan, Turk, Sikh, Mughal and British rule to that of present-day Pakistan.

The flat and fertile terrain has facilitated the repeated rise and expansion of various empires, including the Gupta empire, Kanauj, Magadha, the Maurya Empire, the Mughal Empire and the Sultanate of Delhi – all of which had their demographic and political centers in the Indo-Gangetic plain.

Origins of the fort go as far back as antiquity, however, the existing base structure was built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar between 1556 – 1605 and was regularly upgraded by subsequent Mughal, Sikh and British rulers. It has two gates one is known as Alamgiri Gate build by Emperor Aurangzeb which opens towards Badshahi Mosque and other older one known as Maseeti ( Punjabi language word means of Masjid ) or Masjidi Gate which opens towards Masti Gate Area of Walled City and was built by Emperor Akbar.

Bishnupur Gharana, based in West Bengal, is a key school that has been propagating this style of singing since Mughal times.

The Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, resisted these calls for jihad because, it has been suggested, he feared outbreaks of communal violence.

Professor Kim Wagner has the most recent survey of the historiography, and stresses the importance of William Dalrymple ’ s The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 ( 2006 ) for its " richly detailed account of the period during which the erstwhile Mughal capital was in the hands of the rebels.

The Indian Museum ( Bengali: ভ া রত ী য ় জ া দ ু ঘর ) is the largest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings.

Each of the tracts of land lying between the confluent rivers of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India ( the Indus basin ) has a distinct name, said to have been coined by Raja Todar Mal, a minister of the Mughal emperor Akbar.

He built the Hauz-i-Shamsi reservoir in Mehrauli in 1230, which also has Jahaz Mahal standing on its edge, used by later Mughal Emperors.