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Empire1605 – 1658 · 53 years

Mughal Empire (Jahangir–Shah Jahan)

A Persianate, Central Asian Islamic dynasty that ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for two centuries.

What it was

Founded by Babur in 1526, the Mughals built a syncretic Indo-Islamic civilization whose monuments — the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, Fatehpur Sikri — still define what most non-Indians picture when they imagine "India". British conquest in the 18th and 19th centuries reduced them to figureheads before the East India Company finally abolished the throne in 1858.

Why it mattered

The Mughal land-revenue system was inherited largely intact by the British Raj, and Mughal Persian remained the official language of north Indian courts and bureaucracy until the 1830s.

From Wikipedia

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.

Wikipedia: Mughal Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

  • SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
  • DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1650:Mughal Empire (r14 re-pull, 192 vertices; the previous 51-vertex outline was a simplified copy of the 1700 snapshot and carried borderYear 1700 outside the 1605-1658 slice)
  • SNAPSHOT1650
  • MATCHEDMughal Empire
  • POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire21

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1605 and fits the map to these borders.

65.5°,19.4° → 92.6°,38.0°WARS-ATLAS / EMPIRE / MUGHAL-PEAK

Cite as: Mughal Empire (Jahangir–Shah Jahan) (1605 – 1658). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/mughal-peak · Sources & methodology