THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ('In Brief' Books for Busy People Book 7)

The Mughals, mostly during Babur’s four years in India, had developed a fearsome reputation for themselves. There was no army in India that thought about fighting the Mughals without some trepidation. Sometime before Humayun found himself in that predicament, he had gone in pursuit of the Sultan of Gujarat, Bahadur Shah, who had besieged Chittor. T

More than anyone else, it seems, Mirza Mughal realised the importance of providing some organised logistical back-up to the Uprising, and a coherent administration for Delhi. As it turned out, his administration rarely got beyond crisis management, and never succeeded in turning itself into a force able to control either the different sepoy regimen

It was the death of Aurangzeb in 1707 that changed everything for the Company.

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real kno

the Indian Revolt of 1857. The history that led to the revolt is clear enough. Under the auspices of the East India Company, which maintained a total monopoly over Indian markets, the British Empire had been the effective ruler of India since the mid-eighteenth century, though it was not until the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, was forcefull