The Mughal Empire was founded in 1526 CE, peaked around 1700 and steadily declined into the 19th century, severely weakened by conflicts over succession. Mughal rule began with Zahiruddin Muhammad ...

The Mughal Empire ruled over most of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In the early 16th century, a warrior prince named Babur marched east from central ...

The two Treaties of Purandar, signed over a century apart, shaped Indian history. The first, in 1665, was a setback for the ...

Either you convert to Islam, or you are beheaded – this was the policy of the most atrocious Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb. He, who came to the throne after imprisoning his father and having his ...