Francesca Cartier Brickell discovered a trove of lost family letters in a cellar. The story they told is now part of a ...

India has been home to some of the most influential dynasties in world history, ruling vast territories and shaping global ...

An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.

(Relevance: The Mughal Empire forms an important portion of the UPSC syllabus. Questions have been asked about important battles and the contribution of rulers. In 2003, a question was asked on the ...

These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize the end of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of British colonial rule in India. Major Robert Tytler, having participated ...

Evidently, the site’s sanctified aura could calm the most grim and relentless of warlords: as the Mughal empire began to implode, Aurangzeb’s will requested that “this sinner drenched in sins” should ...

The Mughal Empire, spanning from the early 16th to the 18th century, left a lasting legacy through its blend of Persian, Indian, and Islamic influences. Key emperors like Akbar, Shah Jahan ...

Mughal ruler Aurangzeb has been dominating the political discourse in Maharashtra since the release of the Bollywood movie Chhaava, based on the life of Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and ...

Aurangzeb’s nearly 50-year reign from 1658 to 1707 marked the Mughal empire’s greatest territorial extent, with significant military campaigns in South India. He successfully conquered the Deccan ...

The immediate cause of Nagpur riot was unfounded rumours that the Quran had been burned during a protest by a right-wing group demanding the removal of Mughal ... the Maratha empire who was ...

The city was earlier called Aurangabad, after the Mughal ruler. Aurangzeb is a loathed figure among India’s Hindu nationalists, who accuse him of persecuting Hindus during his rule in the 17th ...

But the tomb of Aurangzeb, who died over 300 years ago in 1707, is not in Nagpur. Neither is it in Delhi, one of the capitals of the Mughal empire. His tomb is located in Khuldabad, a lesser-known ...