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Mughal Empire
1526–1857
The Mughal Empire ruled most of India for three centuries. Akbar the Great built a tolerant, centralized state; Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal. British power hollowed it out, and the 1857 revolt ended it.
Facts
- Founded
- 1526, Babur won the Battle of Panipat.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mughal Empire
- Ended
- 1857, the British deposed the last emperor after the revolt.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mughal Empire
- Heartland
- Northern India, capitals Agra and Delhi.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mughal Empire
- Major rulers
- Akbar the Great, who united India in tolerance; Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal; Aurangzeb, whose bigotry broke the empire.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mughal Empire
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