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.

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This game was played by the Mughal emperors of India ; a notable example being that of Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar.

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The Mughal emperors | Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan attends the marriage procession of his eldest son Dara Shikoh.

** Mughal emperors

In the sixteenth century, the Mughal emperors used relays of horsemen to bring ice from the Hindu Kush to Delhi, where it was used in fruit sorbets.

The title was also extensively used later by emperors of the Indian subcontinent, including those of the Mughal Empire.

The gallery is richly endowed with art of the Mughal Empire, including fine portraits of the emperors and other paintings and drawings, jade wine cups and gold spoons inset with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, also from this period are parts of buildings such as a jaali and pillars.

The three Goindi principalities of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh, and Chanda-Sirpur were nominally subject to the Mughal emperors.

The largest commissions of illustrated books were usually classics of Persian poetry such as the epic Shahnameh, although the Mughals and Ottomans both produced lavish manuscripts of more recent history with the autobiographies of the Mughal emperors, and more purely military chronicles of Turkish conquests.

The Mughal Empire in India lasted from 1526 until ( technically ) 1858, although from the late 17th century power flowed away from the emperors to local rulers, and later European powers, above all the British Raj, who were the main power in India by the late 18th century.

The term " Emperor of India " is also used to refer to Indian emperors such as Ashoka the Great of the Maurya Dynasty and Emperor Akbar the Great of the Mughal empire.

* List of Mughal emperors

* The Red Fort, palatial fortress of the Mughal emperors in Delhi, India

Mughal emperors Babur and Humanyun ruled from Delhi.

The Mughal emperors patronized Persian carpets for their royal courts and palaces.

Carpets made for the Mughal emperors, including Jahangir and Shah Jahan, were of the finest quality.

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

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.

After 1707 Maratha Empire started to dominate the Indian subcontinent whereas Muslim Mughal emperors found it impossible to check the growing power of Hindu Empire.

The Mughals lost their eminent position on the Indian subcontinent forever and the subsequent Mughal emperors became titular rulers.

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Saraswati Devi was married to Misri Singh later titled Naubaat Khan ( Badi baat wala aadmi ) by Mughal Emperor Jahangir ( See Tuzk-e-Jahangiri ).

* in Attock, where Gheba Khan, having married the foster sister of Mughal Emperor Akbar and was granted the hereditary title of Diwan in 1551 for his services in command of the force that took Attock from the Afghans, till the dynasty was promoted in 1910 to the rank of Nawab, with the full style Zubdat ul-Mulk Diwan Mahakhan, Sardar ul-Mulk and latter Nawab of kot

After the downfall of the Mughal Empire, the Johiya chiefs continued for some time to pay tribute at Multan, and Nawab Wali Muhammad Khan Khakwani, its governor, married a Johiya girl, Ihsan Bibi.

Most notably, the “ British exploited the political weakness of the Mughal state, and, while military activity was important at various times, the economic and administrative incorporation of local elites was also of crucial significance ”.

However, the Pashtun and the local landlords ( Baro Bhuyans ) led by Isa Khan resisted the Mughal invasion.

Here he added elements of local architectural styles to his classicism, and based his urbanization scheme on Mughal water gardens.

The new city contains both the Parliament buildings and government offices ( many designed by Herbert Baker ) and was built distinctively of the local red sandstone using the traditional Mughal style.

The period is most notable for luxury arts of the court, and Mughal styles heavily influenced local Hindu and later Sikh rulers as well.

The Mughal miniature began by importing Persian artists, especially a group brought back by Humayun when in exile in Safavid Persia, but soon local artists, many Hindu, were trained in the style.

These broader idiomatic usages developed primarily in Mughal era India, where the term was injected into local idiom through the Persian-speaking courts of Muslim rulers.

By this time the Mughal empire was tottering to its fall, and local powers began to assert their independence.

Several scholars have cited Sinan's possible Albanian origin, while according to the British scholar Percy Brown and the Indians Mahajan, the Mughal Emperor Babur was very dissatisfied from the local Indian architecture and planning, thus he invited " certain pupils of the leading Ottoman architect Sinan, the Albanian genius, to carry out his architectural schemes.

Soon in August 1699 he had been appointed as the Governor of Fort St. George, in the year 1702 when the fort itself was besieged by Daud Khan of the Carnatic the Mughal Empire's local Subedar ( lieutenant ), Thomas Pitt was instructed to vie for peace.

He later bought out some of the Carnatic region, he began garrisoning British East India Company forts by raising regiments of local Sepoy's by hiring from Hindu warrior castes, he armed them with the latest weapons and positioned them under the command of British officers in order to save Madras, his base of operations from further Mughal harassment.

During the period of Mughal rule, local Turkish chiefs acknowledged Mughal authority.

During the Mughal rule, these local Turkish chiefs acknowledged Mughal authority.

Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, mentions the names of the local tribes in his biography.

Following the Mughal conquest of South Asia and the resulting vast Islamic empire, especially in the northern and central regions of the South Asia, a hybrid language of Arabic, Pashto, Turkish, Persian, and local dialects began to form around the 16th and 17th centuries CE, one that would eventually be known as Urdu ( from a Turkish word " Ordu " meaning " army ", in allusion to the army barracks of visiting troops ).

In western Gujarat, including Kathiawar and Kutch, the loosening of Mughal control allowed numerous local rulers to create virtually independent states.

As a result, Mughal architecture suffered, with all artisans migrating to work under the patronage of local rulers.

The book begins with the praise of Genghis Khan, Timur and particularly the first Mughal Emperor Babur and describes several important cities in India, and describes a series of military conflicts with local Indian principalities.

In the year 1702, Daud Khan of the Carnatic | Daud Khan the Mughal Empire's local Subedar of the Carnatic region | Carnatic, to besieged and blockaded Fort St. George for more than three months, the governor of the fort Thomas Pitt was instructed by the British East India Company to vie for peace.

Before the Mughal era, the region between the Saraswati and Hoogli rivers was a thriving local community.