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The closest to an official name for the empire was Hindustan, which was documented in the Ain-i-Akbari. [28] Mughal administrative records also refer to the empire as "dominion of Hindustan" (Wilāyat-i-Hindustān), [29] "country of Hind" (Bilād-i-Hind), "Sultanate of Al-Hind" (Salṭanat(i) al-Hindīyyah) as observed in the epithet of Emperor Aurangzeb [30] or endonymous identification from ...
Begum Shahi Mosque, one of the earliest and most exquisite mosques of Mughal Empire in Lahore. Begum Shahi Mosque is the earliest dated exquisite mosque of the Mughal Empire built during Jahangir's reign. [172] [171] [176] This mosque was named after her in her honour and is known as the Begum Shahi Mosque.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mughal Empire people. It includes Mughal Empire people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women of the Mughal Empire .
This is a list of Mughal empresses. Most of these empresses were either from branches of the Timurid dynasty , from the royal houses or families of Persian nobles. Alongside Mughal emperors , these empresses played a role in the building up and rule of the Mughal Empire in South Asia , from the early 16th century to the early 18th century.
India in 1525 just before the onset of Mughal rule. The Mughal Empire was founded by Babur (reigned 1526–1530), a Central Asian ruler who was descended from the Persianized Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (the founder of the Timurid Empire) on his father's side, and from Genghis Khan on his mother's side. [11]
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.
' The Exalted One of the Palace '; born Arjumand Banu Begum; 27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631) [6] was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. [7] The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World, [8] was commissioned by her husband to act as her ...
She was the second and the eldest surviving child of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. After Mumtaz Mahal's untimely death in 1631, the 17-year-old Jahanara was entrusted with the charge of the royal seal and conferred the title of Padshah Begum (First lady) of the Mughal Empire, even though her father had three surviving wives. She ...