<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Mughal Empire (Persian: گورکانیان ‬ ‎, translit . Gūrkāniyān; Urdu: مغلیہ سلطنت ‬ ‎, translit . Mughliyah Saltanat) or Mogul Empire was an empire in the Indian subcontinent, founded in 1526 . It was established and ruled by the Timurid dynasty with Turco - Mongol Chagatai roots from Central Asia, claiming direct descent from both Genghis Khan (through his son Chagatai Khan) and Timur, but with significant Indian Rajput and Persian ancestry through marriage alliances; only the first two Mughal emperors were fully Central Asian . The dynasty was Indo - Persian in culture, combining Persianate culture with local Indian cultural influences visible in its traits and customs . </P> <P> The beginning of the empire is conventionally dated to the victory by its founder Babur over Ibrahim Lodi, the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, in the First Battle of Panipat (1526). During the reign of Humayun, the successor of Babur, the empire was briefly interrupted by the Sur Empire . The "classic period" of the Mughal Empire started in 1556 with the ascension of Akbar the Great to the throne . Some Rajput kingdoms continued to pose a significant threat to the Mughal dominance of northwestern India, but most of them were subdued by Akbar . All Mughal emperors were Muslims; Akbar, however, propounded a syncretic religion in the latter part of his life called Dīn - i Ilāhī, as recorded in historical books like Ain - i - Akbari and Dabistān - i Mazāhib . The Mughal Empire did not try to intervene in the local societies during most of its existence, but rather balanced and pacified them through new administrative practices and diverse and inclusive ruling elites, leading to more systematic, centralised, and uniform rule . Traditional and newly coherent social groups in northern and western India, such as the Marathas, the Rajputs, the Pashtuns, the Hindu Jats and the Sikhs, gained military and governing ambitions during Mughal rule, which, through collaboration or adversity, gave them both recognition and military experience . </P> <P> Internal dissatisfaction arose due to the weakness of the empire's administrative and economic systems, leading to its break - up and declarations of independence of its former provinces by the Nawab of Bengal, the Nawab of Awadh, the Nizam of Hyderabad and other small states . In 1739, the Mughals were crushingly defeated in the Battle of Karnal by the forces of Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty in Persia, and Delhi was sacked and looted, drastically accelerating their decline . By the mid-18th century, the Marathas had routed Mughal armies and won over several Mughal provinces from the Punjab to Bengal . During the following century Mughal power had become severely limited, and the last emperor, Bahadur Shah II, had authority over only the city of Shahjahanabad . He issued a firman supporting the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and following the defeat was therefore tried by the British East India Company for treason, imprisoned and exiled to Rangoon . The last remnants of the empire were formally taken over by the British, and the Government of India Act 1858 let the British Crown formally assume direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj . </P>

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