The palace he constructed in the Fort of Agra has exacted the encomiums of Fergusson, the historian of Indian Architecture? who writes : " Ini the citadel of Agra there stands or at least 64 THE MUGHAL EMPIRE stood when I was there a fragment of a palace built by Sher Shah, or his son Salim, which was as exquisite a piece of decorative art as anything of its class in India. Before Bairam 74 THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Khan came to the rescue, Agru had fallen and TardI Beg, the Governor of r Delhi, had been defeated and put to flight After the fall of Agra, Hemu occupied Delhi, ascended the Mughal Throne, struck coins in his own name, raised the Imperial Canopy over his head and assumed the title of Vikramaditya. Ĭolonel James Tod justly remarks : ' Well had it been for Mewar had the poniard fulfilled his intention and had the annals never recorded the name of Udai Singh 94 THE MUGHAL EMPIRE in the catalogue of her princes ' It was, therefore, high time for the Mughal Emperor to resume his campaign against Rajputana. To be sure, the Muslim Kings from the establishment of the Slave Dynasty down to the decline of the Mughal Empire were foreigners only in the sense in which the sovereigns of England have been foreigners to the Mother Country since the time of William the Conqueror. Aibak, the first king of the Sultanate of Delhi, and Babar, the first king of the Mughal Empire, came from foreign lands, no doubt, but they settled down in this country, made it their permanent home, identified themselves with the interests ci the country and ruled it rather as Indians than as foreigners. 388 THE MUGHAL EMPIRE of the Indian sun and conditioned their growth, multiplication and expansion under the Indian climates. (More.)įor the contributions made by the Muslim Kings and others to the sacred cause of education, vide Education in Muslim India. In the end he did not conquer all of India - a small tip in the very south remained - but it was Akbar who turned the Mughals into a proper empire.Though Akbar was a direct descendent of Ghengis Khan, and his grandfather Babur was the first emperor of the Mughal dynasty, his father, Humayun, had been driven from the throne by Sher Shah Suri.The instability of the empire became evident under his son, Humayun, who was driven out of India and into Persia by rebels.The system is justly regarded as one of the crowning achieve- ments of Mughal Rule in India.
As an empire, the Mughals were able to consolidate the smaller kingdoms of South Asia (specifically within India and Pakistan) into one centralized government.For the contributions made by the Muslim Kings and others to the sacred cause of education, vide Education in Muslim India.
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