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Everything on Mughal Empire 1526–1857
The whole of what the archive holds on Mughal Empire 1526–1857, gathered across 2 domains — its politics and its cooking, its buildings and its language, its saints and its diamonds. The collection page shows one hop and sends you deeper by links; this page elides nothing.
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Historical Periods & Dynasties
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- Akbar — Person · r. 1556 – 1605 · Akbar 1556–1605The Mughal emperor under whom the Rajput alliance system was built — by marriage, by rank, and by the calculation that a served empire is cheaper than a conquered one.
- The Mughal Empire — Dynasty · 1526 – 1857 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857The empire into which the Rajput houses were recruited rather than simply conquered — and the receiving end of every marriage in this layer.
- Sher Shah Suri — Person · r. 1540 – 1545 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Born Farid, son of Hasan Khan Soor; he usurped the Delhi throne from the Mughals after decisively defeating Humayun at Kanauj, assumed the title of Shah, and ruled until dying of wounds from a shell-burst at the siege of Kalinjar in 1545.
- Islam Shah Suri — Person · r. 1545 – 1548 (Briggs's own chronology here runs roughly six years ahead of Bosworth's 952–961/1545–1554) · Mughal Empire 1526–1857The younger son of Sher Shah Suri, installed by his father's officers over the elder son Adil Khan Soor, whom Sher Shah had named his successor; he died after a reign Briggs dates to the Hijri year 955, and was succeeded by his own young son.
- Firuz Shah Suri — Person · r. 1548 (three days) · Mughal Empire 1526–1857The twelve-year-old son of Islam Shah Suri, placed on the throne at Gwalior by the chiefs of the Sur tribe on his father's death; he was murdered within three days by his maternal uncle Mubariz Khan, who then seized the throne.
- Muhammad Adil Shah Suri — Person · r. 1548 – c. 1554 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857A nephew of Sher Shah Suri and brother-in-law of Islam Shah, he murdered the boy-king Firuz Shah and took the throne as Muhammad Adil Shah; contested for most of his reign by the rival claimants Ibrahim Shah Suri and Sikandar Shah Suri, he was eventually defeated and killed by Bahadur Shah (Khizr Khan) of Bengal.
- Ibrahim Shah Suri — Person · r. c. 1554 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857A cousin and brother-in-law of Muhammad Adil Shah Suri, he raised an army after Adil Shah moved to arrest him, seized Delhi, and ruled the western territory until Sikandar Shah Suri defeated him and took Agra and Delhi in turn.
- Sikandar Shah Suri — Person · r. 1554 – 1555 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Another nephew of Sher Shah Suri, he assumed the title of Sikandar Shah with the backing of Islam Shah's old nobles, defeated Ibrahim Shah Suri to take Agra and Delhi, and was formally enthroned there in 1554, only to be defeated by Humayun's general Bairam Khan and driven into Bengal, where he died soon after.
- Babur — Person · r. 1526 – 1530 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Founder of the Mughal dynasty in India; defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat and had the khutba read in his own name at Delhi in 1526, reigning until his death in 1530.
- Humayun — Person · r. 1530 – 1540, restored 1555 – 1556 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Succeeded his father Babur by designation in 1530, was driven from Hindustan by the Sur Afghans, and recovered Delhi by force in 1555 before dying the following year, when Akbar was raised to the throne in his stead.
- The Sur Sultanate — the Delhi interregnum — Dynasty · 1540 – 1555 · Mughal Empire 1526–1857No Atlas dynasty node exists for the Surs — the Historical Periods branch's 'Delhi Sultanate 1206–1526' node stops at Lodi (its own name-range excludes the Sur years entirely), and 'Mughal Empire 1526–1857' does not carve out the interruption either.
- Hasan Khan Sur — Person · named on the page as father of Sher Shah Suri · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Hasan (Briggs: 'Hussun'/'Hoossein') Khan Soor, an Afghan of the tribe of Soor holding Sahsaram and Tanda in jageer; not a ruler of this polity.
- Nizam Khan Sur — Person · named on the page as father of Muhammad Adil Shah Suri · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Nizam Khan Soor was Sher Shah Suri's brother (both sons of Hasan Khan Soor per the genealogical chart facing p.98); not a ruler of this polity.
- Adil Khan Sur — Person · named on the page as father of Sikandar Shah Suri · Mughal Empire 1526–1857The engraved genealogical chart facing p.98 draws 'Sikundur Shah Soor' as the son of 'Adil Khan Soor' (Sher Shah Suri's own eldest son, given Runtunbhore in jageer and originally named Sher Shah's successor).
Women's Contributions
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- Jahanara — Person · eldest daughter of Shah Jahan; her dates not yet read from a page · Mughal Empire 1526–1857Shah Jahan’s eldest daughter, the "Begam Sahib", with an income of three million rupees and the revenues of Surat, and kept unmarried under what Manucci calls "the regulation of Akbar that daughters should not be given husbands".