Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur, who founded the Mughal dynasty of South Asia kept a journal Bāburnāma ( Chagatai /; literally: " Book of Babur " or " Letters of Babur ") which was written between 1493 and 1529.

Early in 1757, he sacked Delhi, but permitted the Mughal dynasty to remain in nominal control as long as the ruler acknowledged Ahmad Shah's suzerainty over the Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir.

He sacked Delhi in 1757, but permitted the Mughal dynasty to remain in nominal control of the city as long as the ruler acknowledged Ahmad Shah's suzerainty over Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir.

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.

A Miniature ( illuminated manuscript ) | miniature from Padshahnama depicting the surrender of the Shi ' a Islam | Shi ' a Safavid dynasty | Safavid garrison of Kandahar in 1638 to the Mughal Empire | Mughal army of Shah Jahan commanded by Kilij Khan.

The Mughals suffered sever blow due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans due to which the Mughal dynasty were reduced to puppet rulers by 1757.

The remnants of the Mughal dynasty were finally defeated during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also called the 1857 War of Independence.

During the Mughal era, the dominant political forces consisted of the Mughal Empire and its tributaries and, later on, the rising successor states-including the Maratha Empire-which fought an increasingly weak Mughal dynasty.

There is no doubt that the single most important power to emerge in the long twilight of the Mughal dynasty was the Maratha Empire.

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.

Humayun's return from Persia, accompanied by a large retinue of Persian noblemen, signaled an important change in Mughal court culture, as the Central Asian origins of the dynasty were largely overshadowed by the influences of Persian art, architecture, language and literature and also there are many stone carved and Persian language In India from the time of Humayun also thousands of Persian manuscript in India.

The British East India Company made great advances at the expense of a Mughal dynasty.

One important consequence of the revolt was the final collapse of the Mughal dynasty.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan then chose his son Aurangzeb to become the Subedar of Deccan and ordered the annexation of Ahmednagar and the overthrow of the Nizam Shahi dynasty.

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

Instead, the only Hindu title which is commonly rendered as Emperor is Samraat or Samraj ( a ), a personal distinction achieved by a few rulers of ancient dynasties such as the Mauryas and Guptas ; the Muslim equivalent of emperor would be Padshah, applied to the Mughal dynasty.

The Iranian Safavids, a dynasty stretching from 1501 to 1786, is distinguished from the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, and earlier Persian rulers, in part through the Shi ' a faith of its shahs, which they succeeded in making the majority denomination in Persia.

* Mughal Empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty

Though the Mughal dynasty ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th century onwards, they simply used the title Badishah ( Badishah / badshah means " great king " or king of kings, somewhat close to the title of emperor ) without geographic designation.

The British crushed the rebellion, captured Bahadur Shah and exiled him to Rangoon, Burma in 1858, whereupon the Mughal dynasty came to an end.

This period marked vast social change in the subcontinent as the Hindu majority were ruled over by the Mughal emperors, most of whom showed religious tolerance, liberally patronising Hindu culture.

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.

Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin Following the Shahmiri Dynasty, was the Chak Dynasty that ruled until Mughal conquest in 1586.

Pashtunistan was ruled by the Mughal Empire during the early 18th century when Afghan led by Mirwais Hotak successfully revolted against the Persian Safavids in the city of Kandahar.

Shastri was born in Mughal Sarai in the Chandauli district of the United Provinces, British India in British ruled India.

The Mughal Empire was ruled by Mughal Emperors who were direct descendants of Genghis Khan and Timur they also claimed amalgam with the culture of Turan and directly patronized the Shahnameh the masterpiece of Firdowsi, which particularly inspired servicemen in the Mughal Army.

Mughal emperors Babur and Humanyun ruled from Delhi.

At its zenith, the Mughal Empire, which covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent ( including present day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh ), was ruled from Delhi, Agra, and Allahabad during different periods.

With the disintegration of the Mughal empire after the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, infiltrations to the valley from the Pashtun tribes increased, and the Durrani Empire ruled the city for several decades.

This process culminated in the Mughal Empire, which ruled most of India during the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.

The Mughal Empire () was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled most of the Indian subcontinent between 1526 and 1707.

The dynasty was founded by Mir Qamar-ud-Din Siddiqi, a viceroy of the Deccan under the Mughal emperors from 1713 to 1721 and who intermittently ruled under the title Asaf Jah in 1724, and After Aurangzeb's death in 1707, the Mogul empire crumbled and the viceroy in Hyderabad, the young Asaf Jah, declared himself independent.

The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty.

Mahadji ruled the Punjab as it used to be a Mughal territory and Sikh sardars and other Rajas of the cis-Sutlej region paid tributes to him.

Parihar rulers of Kannauj may have ruled this place for a significant part of history long before the beginning of Mughal era.

Jahandar Shah ( 1661 – 1713 ) was a Mughal Emperor who ruled India for a brief period in 1712-1713.

By the 17th century, the Mughal Empire ruled most of India, but later declined during the 18th century.

In Mughal and colonial India, the princely state of Zainabad, Vanod was ruled by a Malek Shri ( Shri is an emphatical honorific without intrinsic meaning ).

Bahadur Shah ( Bahādur Shāh ) ( 14 October 1643, Burhanpur – 27 February 1712, Lahore ) was a Mughal Emperor, who ruled India from 1707 to 1712.

Almost all or a larger part of Rajasthan and Gujarat had been known as Gurjaratra ( country ruled or protected by the Gurjars ) or Gurjarabhumi ( land of the Gurjars ) for centuries prior to Mughal period.

The Mughal era is a historic period of the Mughal Empire in South Asia ( mainly Northern India, North Eastern Pakistan and Bangladesh ) ruled by members of the Timurid Dynasty.