A short history of the Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically, and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventuer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858.

Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, pre-eminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interest conflicted.

This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively, and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.