@@albatros33 Diğer Türk hesaplar Cevapları kaynak vererek vermişler zaten; hepsine like' kastım. Bunu söyleyende bir afghan zaten; ciddiye bile almayın. Daha ülke kuramayan neandarthaller ağlıyorlar.
@@albatros33 Ben en son baktığımda afghanlar sövüyordu; yahu bunlara kalsa Göktuklere bile moğol derler; sebebini söylemek istemediğim sebeplerden iranlılar; afganlar; bazı pakistanlılar (genellikle bayağı ar*plar)'ın bize karşı bayağı açık nefreti ve kıskançlığı var; 1500 yıl 2000 yıl önce olan olaylar için !!!
@@albatros33 Bunu ciddi olarak soyleyemezler; soylerlerse hangi ''kitleye'' ait oldukları bellidir; indi-aryan' diye hava atarlar ama bir britanyalı bir afganla - hintli ile 3 metre yakın mesafede durmaz! Nedir bu tarihi revizyonculuk aşkı ? Wikipedia' bile doldu bunların adminleri ile; Zazalara etnik olarak bir ırk değil diyorlar! Türklere kötü olan ne varsa bilimselmiş gibi saydiriyorlar!
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
The most fascinating thing to me is the Marathas couldn't do away with the Mughal emperor despite having him as a puppet. That speaks of the lasting influence of the might of the empire. Even the British couldn't dare to execute the Mughal emperor and exiled him only after things took a really bad turn.
@Ganda Bacha and BECAUSE Martha is hords united not a empire like United states and bajirao the greatest commander of martha ever dosent wanna destroy MAUGHAL empire because the control of india of Delhi is a old system who leadership indians people but if him DESTROY MAUGHAL empire maybe the bloodiest civil ever in history can be rajbot vc Martha vc Bengal vc benjab vc sikh vc decan vc Tamil vc myssour sultanat great civil war destroy india and BRITISH watch indian destroy him self MAYBE if these happend british will conquer india in 5 years not 100 years BECAUSE the population in india will be so small because the civil war
@@anantissar4028 you do realise rapists murderers are considered heroes in Islam you must be new to Islam their ideology is all about killing murdering and raping infidels
Sahibzada Haider ali Sikhs entered delhi in 1783 under the leadership of Jassa Singh ahuliwala.He captured Red Fort and decided to excute mughal king but her harem women pleaded for mercy .But he ordered to built saheedganj sahib gurudwara dedicated to shri guru tegbahadur ji
@gulag master Bairam Khan was pivotal but taking all credit away from Humayun isn't fair. Without his resilience to constantly keep trying, the re-institution of the Mughal State would have been inconceivable.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
Actually no. He didn't mention most of slaughtering of infidels and even after Mughals intermingled with Indians and had children still calling them turko Persians is just plain pathetic but it's just my opinion and I could be wrong ...
I largely agree but I think there's room for a bit of passion. It's important to understand why people are so passionate and angry about historical issues so we can try to solve them going forward, even if their passions are misplaced.
For those who want a "Game of Mughals", there's a series called Siyasat, it is quite a good portrayal of politics, internal conflicts and social dynamics of personal lives of Mughal emperors.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
-mongols invaded the whole world except india* indians: oooh that was close call -mongols turned muslims and coming toward india! indians: wHy i hEaR bOsS mUsiC
now this deserves a TV series, not like GoT where the depressed dragon goes missing, the 1000 yr throne gets melted in minutes and a new movable throne currently held by the cripple.
TheRussian Walrus oh I watch extra credits too, but thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check out since I haven’t seen that video yet. Still, I wanted to see Epimetheus’s take on it since he has already done a video on Ancient Mexican cultures.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
@@Nixo77don't believe stupid bots well in any empire after gazavinds they all had minister from different religion well british surely played a big roll in fall of Mughals bcz they started a good amount of divide and rule which caused 200 years of colonization it's not like they were out dated but at first they could defeat them but all of them were fighting each other then got miserable at end bcz of curropt in every empire
Babur was supported by an Indian warlord Rana Sangam Singh of Mewer . Rana Invited him to defect the Lodhi's but Babur took advantage of the power vacuum and ill-equipped Subcontinental army .First defected Babur than Rana Sanga and led to the foundation of Mughal empire .
hardly an emperor, he was always on the run. read more accurate history. he did not even defeated rana sanga as the historians describe, for next 3 years of the battle of khanwa, he dare not attack Rana Sanga's domain, rather he advanced to other eastern states of the country. He was also a coward who usually never fought in the battles till he got sure that the victory was at hand. He always surrounded himself with a personal contingent. Regarding an emperor, he (and his predecessors) could never again win their own land back, besides the most important factor an emperor should have is direct control of a vast land (neither he or his predecessors did), peace was almost non-existent, never worked for the betterment of local populace (an emperor has to be working on that is a must), technically he was just exploiting. Different people have different theory of emperor, as the topic is babur, he was never an emperor. Also, in Islam, anybody could declare himself caliph, he was not even a caliph, how could he be an emperor. the whole idea is shi*.
The Mughals didn't use to call themselves the "Mughals" during their reign. They use to call themselves Gurkani. They were named Mogul by the British, and later the local accents pronounced it as Mughal. Their real name during their reign was Gurkani. Which means the son in laws (of Ghengis Khan). From Wikipedia: "Gurkani" means "son-in-law" (of Genghis Khan). The nomenclature Mughal Empire is of English origin and not the name by which the empire was known then or designated.
Fascinating! This is a period that I can claim to know a little about, and I'm simply awed that you cover pretty much all in 10 minutes. I enjoyed it very much. To answer you, while you are of course right about Turkic genealogical origins I believe the Mughals themselves would have answered that were Uzbek; given Babar's home in Ferghana and the reverence all his successors had for the idea and myth of Ferghana. They maintained Uzbek family habits and rituals in their private lives and there were many Uzbek commanders in their armies. But they never saw Ferghana again, Kabul was their favoured city, treasured for its climate and the beautiful gardens that they installed. It reminded them of their mountain origins. As mountain Uzbeks however they were rustic and unpolished. This changed with wealth and stability and especially due to Humayun's exile in Persia and the subsequent two generations of friendly relations between the two Empires. The Mughals came to surpass the Persians in empire and wealth yet the Mughal court considered the Persian court the pinnacle of sophistication and elegance, and tried to emulate them most sincerely. To sum up, they started as Uzbeks of Turkic origin who aspired for Persian culture but ultimately they became decidedly Indian - for the talent of India is such that whomever has conquered it ultimately became assimilated and changed to such extent that if a traveler from their lands of origin suddenly met them he would find them quite unfamiliar.
2. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, a direct descendant of Turk-Mongol conqueror Timur, also known as Tamurlane. His mother was a direct descendant of Asia's conqueror Genghis Khan. 3. He ascended the throne of Fergana (now in Uzbekistan) in 1495, at the age of 12. In 1504, he conquered Kabul, which was an important citadel in Central Asia.
@@kingoftheworld22 we are talking about empire not babur Babur was definitely turco mongol but the name of empire was hindustan Even rulers became indian over time
@@jackclark1916 you are really stupid if you believe Britain did India a favour, they destroyed the economy and used it to build the uk, india was left in ruins , they only thing they gave was trains at the cost of millions of lives and betrayal
@@jackclark1916 that is a complete farce, india during the 1700s had a estimated economy of 25% of world gdp, during its independence it went down to 2%, the british took alot of resources from india and too say it never profited is a complete lie, there is a reason to why it was called the jewel of the crown you know, i am only talking of a economical perspective as well, not the social which was far worse, force converting, blackmail, rape and murder too only name a few, also the catalyst of the bengal famine as well which resulted in over a million deaths, india would of caught up undoubtedly with the west, maybe not as advanced but still not as bad as what it was left at, when the british left, btw im not indian
@@Muwahhid123 yeah but thats because the rest of the world went off the scale in terms of economic growth at that time, the actual indian economy stayed about the same. Not that it wasn't run to feed British industry but you've got to give it to them. They got the Indians to do the occupation and administration of it as well, there were hardly any british soldiers in the entire place.
A note....North East India was never captured by the Mughal empire. The Mughal invasion in Assam was defeated by the great Assamese/Ahom general Lachit Borphukon..
I suggest checking out "Zafarnama". It was a letter written to Aungzerab by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Guru Gobind Singh installed a warrior mindset amongst the Sikhs and started the rebellion against Aungzerab.
Guru Gobind Singh ji shot a arrow through a window which nearly hit his arm which had the Zafernama attached to the arrow it states that next time he will hit his head next time
@Nik 13 bravery is the reason we india gets rules 1000 years. We indians gives too much credit to bravery and very little to skills. War ar not won by bravery but by skills. Bravery only gets you killed. Thats why we gets our ass kicked by every eraa-geraa-nathhu-khera. 1 we never respected enemy. 2 we never respected the importance of technology in wars. 3 we never respected the importance of strategy in wars. Wars ar not fought by screaming and filmy dialogs of bravery and BS. *WAR IS A ART WE HAD A LOT OF BRAVE WARRIORS BUT VERY LITTLE MILLITRY TECHNICIANS WHO UNDERSTOOD THE ART OF WAR*
@@abhinavchauhan7864 who is this we? You might be a Rajput. Because we Marathas always gave importance to strategy and technology over useless ideals and principles. We employed French generals to train our infantry. We incorporated europeans cannons and muskets in the 18th century. Read about Mahadji scindia and de boigne. First go and read history and then comment
@@gauravpalande5524 Waise Maurya Empire aur Mughal Empire ki (maximum) territories match nahi kartein? In addition to military adventures by Ashoka and Aurangzeb
Mughal Empire was literally a big empire in Indian history, which started from 1526 and continued till 1857. Though the fact is the empire lasted till 1707, the later Mughals and the entry of British in India also involved in this.
@@ronnis1679 yeah it collapsed in less than half a century after ashoka The Mauryans only had 2 great rulers, Anahola and his father chandragupta maurya
Really great and interesting as always, i was always amazed how people from the Steppe conquered greater civilizations and became their rulers, just look into the history of India, Iran, Anatolia and later all this nomadic cultures dissapeared because they took local culture and customs
YOURE WRONG AFTER THE DEATH OF AURANGZEB THE MUGHAL EMPIRE STARTED DECLING NOT BECAUSE OF THE SO CALLED BRAVE PEOPLE . IT WAS THE MUGHALS THEMSELVES WHO STARTED TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES . CORRUPTION HAD BECOME RAMPANT , THE RULERS HAD BECOME ALCOHOLICS AND WERE MORE INTERESTED IN WOMENS THAN THEIR EMPIRES. HISTORY HAS IT THAT CORRUPTION CAN BRING DOWN THE BIGGEST EMPIRES . FOR THOSE OF YOU THINKING THAT THESE JATS, SIKHS AND OTHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MUGHALS DECLINE YOURE WRONG THE MUGHALS THEMSEVES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN DOWNFALL. IF YOU ARE A MAHARASHTRIAN PLEASE DONT READ THIS THESE WORDS WILL NEVER GO INTO YOUR BRAIN BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE STILL THINK HIDING BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS IS BRAVERY.
@@alishaikh7877 that's correct infighting and corruption eat the whole mighty mughal empire and after that British conquered whole indian subcontinent through wars, divide and rule policy, etc the British Raj was very harsh and it can be felt today also the divide created for their own profit is now same used by todays indian politicians for their own benefits can't u people see the population who rebelled only under the banner of mughal emperor ( was just a powerless emperor) against British.
Battle of panipat /Maratha Empire and mughal-maratha 27 war deserve a separate video. Had vishwas rao or bhau survived the panipat or madhav rao didnt die young .India would be different dont know good or bad but certainly different .
@@goldenmemes51 Sadhashiv rao (Know as Bhau ,term of respect) was son of chimmaji Appa .First Cousin of Peshwa Balaji baji rao He never lost any battle till third battle of panipat,where he was commander-in-chief of around 40k soldier and on died battle field . Vishwasrao was son or heir apparent of Balaji baji Rao ,grand son of illustrious balaji bhat,nephew of bhau .
@Future Cybertron nadir shah came in 1739-40 after hearing that some maratha's had defeated the mughal at bhopal and battle of delhi in 1737,routing the whole imperial army. Secondly maratha fought three battle with british . Last Hyder-Tipu were trained by french specially under de bussy ,for i guess make in india- Rafale initiative ,mysore was defeated and needed to pay chauth to maratha under woodyer king as per baji rao and bhonsle expediation ,which eventually tipu agreed to pay as treaty of Gajendragad.His father alsoagrredto pay same after madhav rao expedition
@@himanshutyagi5798 In summary marathas was a fish trying to swim to the top of a leaking barrel The British were already taking large swaths of land And even when they pushed the last mughal emperor into Delhi they kept him on rather than depose him Why? Legitimacy that's why Having amughal emperor still ruling in Delhi ensured the loyalty of the muslims within their realm Even still they didn't last long Wiki page is wrong Marathas barely last century and their peak was less than 40 years The wiki page adds on years from the early period as a conclave in the deccan coast even though they were getting hammered by aurengzeb while swallowed the entire deccan region
Indians were never united and that is why foreigners such as mughals. Iranians ,french, british invaded India. Even now they are not united. They are acustomed to fight each other.
this is pretty natural. cause the religious-cultural social fabric of indian subcontinent have nurtured and promoted "class/caste system" for thousand of years that itself discriminate between various groups of a society. consequently, the invaders took advantage of that and ruled them in different periods of history.
@Manu Kum if you're even remotely connected with India you should know by what time Aryan race came to India, when did the rise of Brahmins Sanskrit based aristrocacy reshaped Indian religious & socio cultural fabric with the practice of caste /class system. Lastly whether in Indian mass people culture this system still dominantly exist or not. Considering all this factors when you will calculate the time period you would find it is well beyond 2000 years! Explore the below link for starter; ruclips.net/video/HyCQDIwHlXY/видео.html
@@rips69ify I am sure you never gave a thought about why ethnically & culturally north & south India are so significantly different! Also don't really comprehend how "theory" and "facts" are classified in historical context! 👍
It's questionable to say that the Mughals were "a Persianized Turko-Mongol Warrior aristocracy" for their entire rule. They weren't really all that Turko-Mongol after the second generation; Humayun's mother may have been Iranian, and Akbar's mother certainly was. As Epimetheus mentioned, Akbar's successor had a Rajput mother, and married a Rajput princess himself. So, in terms of lineage, their third ruler was at least as Persian as Turko-Mongol, and after that his descendants were more Indian than anything. In terms of culture, meanwhile, they didn't really have a lot of holdovers from their Turko-Mongol ancestors after Akbar, and became much more culturally Indo-Persian.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s. mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2016/03/lost-found-toward-a-living-heritage/ The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture. oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10 His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory. iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/ Timur Turk- Central Asia Uzbekistan L24? Uzbekistan J-M172 www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Emperor%20of%20India?=yresults Babur regarded himself a Timur-i Turk. books.google.com.tr/books?id=VW2HJL689wgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjby6OeyuzqAhVRzqYKHdW8AZ8Q6AEIJzAA#v=snippet&q=Turk&f=false (Baburnama) Ruy Gonzales de Clavjio books.google.com.tr/books?id=de9pTA-2d8UC&pg=PA72&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoypypqo3rAhU6i8MKHaNiBrYQ6AEIMzAB#v=snippet&q=Basileus&f=false Nimat Allah al Harawi/Mughal Chronicler www.wdl.org/en/item/3034/view/1/305/#q=Timar
@@albatros33 No, that only applies to Babur, since he had Turkic ancestry on his dad's side and Mongol ancestry on his mum's side; Humayun was either Turko-Mongol on both sides or Turko-Mongol paternally and Persian maternally, and Humayun's son was definitely Persian maternally and Turk-Mongol paternally, and so on and so forth, as I described.
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Akbar was first powerful emperor and Aurangzeb was last After That they are puppets Either of Waziers, Marathas, Subhedars, British and looted by Marathas,persians,durrani, Sikhs . So I consider Mughal rule from Akbar-Aurangzeb
@VK Firstly, there was no Hindu vs Muslim war. It was a propaganda used by Muslim invader just like Maratha used Hindu Swaraj slogan to raise moral. Secondly, so Prithivraj Chauhan's victory in 1st battle of Terrain, Hemu taking Delhi from Mughals (brief but was still a victory), Mewar stopping invasions under Bappa Rawal, Battle of Dewar where Maharana Pratap claimed majority of his territory back, Extension of Maratha empire under Peshwa Bajirao and Chatrapati Shivaji, the rebellion of Rajput alliance in 1700s was a myth I guess according to you? Thirdly, even after almost 10 centuries of invasion India is still a Hindu majority even tho we were forced to convert pay non Muslim taxes , brutalized by many invaders yet we are still surviving how did that happen? Reality is that Indian subcontinent history goes way back even before Christianity or Islam was born. I only gave you example of resistance against muslims but many other rulers in history have been defending against European invasions. Hinduism is the only prehistoric religion that has survived. Reality is if you go right back since the start of Indian subcontinent existence they have defend and won way more battles then lost its just Britishers and later Congress distorted history to only talk about history from Mughal dynasty onwards to get vote bank or create muslim-hindu divide which Britishers succeeded as you can see Bharat got divided into India and Pakistan and then later Bangladesh also.
@@Angrypatriot_1 you ar wrong hinduism of today has nothing to do with Hinduism of prehistoric time. Every hindu book and text has been heavily edited. So no hinduism has not survived.
Love your content, I learn so much about parts of history that we are not often educated about (I'm a Brit). I'd always assumed the Moguls must be related to the Mongols, by similarity of name and time periods, but interesting to learn the truth. Absolutely fascinating material, delivered concisely and with visual fair. Subscribed!
Yes they speak Turkic language..stop being pathetic.. They used persian for diplomacy probably... What you are doing is like africans claims french history because they use french language in state affairs ..you have No business here gtfo here.
@@sktt1488 only initial mughals spoke Turkic language you dimwit Stop claiming others history Mughals spoke persian and later Urdu Turkic was never a common language All the capital of Mughal empire are based in india The name of Mughal empire was also hindustan So stfu and get lost
The majority of mughal empire rule lasted from 1556-1740 for 200 years, In the last 100 years the empire was basically inside Delhi city with emperor in the name only.
They called themselves Shahanshah E Hindostan, it became an Indian equivalent of Roman Emperor and thus it was so prestigious that for the next century both Marathas and British tried to legitimise their rule in North India by being protector of the Mughal Emperor.
@@PakistanDefenseForum Babar Couldn't include the whole of Bengal or the Burma. It's probably at the time of Akbar all those parts were united under the Mughal Banner.
As a sikh ( people will debate my outlook on this ) aurangzeb was a very religous man, but a cruel and harsh ruler on the other hand his ancestor akbar was well loved by both muslims and non muslims his biggest accomplishment was removing the religous tax. So if I had to choose I would pick akhbar.
@@yasinjamal7517 you are absolute right i herd a story about him that once he said a quote from Guru Nanak Dev ji and his ministers addressed him that he should not heed to those quotes since its a non believers words. He then addressed that when he studied in his madrassa his maulvi used to say that quote to remind them of there doings or something.
I disagreed on the tax stuff. countries run in tax, and im pretty sure the mughal citizens during that time was not burdened by heavy tax at all, the only major tax imposed on them was religious tax. And most nob muslims only them have to pay tax because of the jizya whrn muslims themselves have tocpay zakat. It was a political propaganda if anything.
@@aaak3590 tax on non muslims is called jizya. Its not because they're not of that faith lol. Muslims also have to pay their own tax whoch is the zakat. Difference between those two is that zakat is compulsary. But both aim is to rejuvinate the economy and help the poor This is what i meant by non muslims doesn't understand the concept and took the political propaganda purely at face value. If you want to criticize a taxing system then rome is your best bet since they taxed literally everyone even the people who they think as barbaric and denied citizenship.
@@bryguysays2948 It's funny because of all things a powerful emperor like Humayun could've died from,it was a staircase. I mean he survived being decapitated in battle only to die in the most humiliating way during peacetime lmao.
He was always a true Uzbek, so to say. Born in Uzbekistan, Grandson of the greatest Uzbek leader Tamerlane, how could you say he was Afghani? Even today, the people who live in where Babur hided and gained armies from are classified as ethnic Uzbeks, even if they live/lived in Afghanistan.
Great presentation. Just some additions and corrections. Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his youngest son Aurangzeb for 8 years. He used king's illness as a perfect pretext to kill off his brothers, cousins and nephews to usurp the throne. Shah Jahan was nominally called the Emperor till he died. So the fratricide and war of succession happened 8 years before Shah Jahan died. Even at their height, Mughals didn't directly control as much land as maps show. Much of Rajputana in west was controlled by Rajputs who were semi-autonomous, though nominally under the Mughal rule. Marathas were also battling in the west and the land under Mughal control was constantly shifting. The British East India Company grabbed some Indian land through war, but majority was through leaky contracts that they interpreted to benefit themselves. eg - Jhasi - where they disallowed the king's adopted son from taking over after the king's death and usurped the kingdom themselves. The term 'Indian Rebellion' is severally incorrect. You can rebel against a legitimate ruler. The Company was not a legitimate ruler of India. Marathas, Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs - they were the legitimate rulers of India. Most Historians now term the war as '1st battle of Independence.' No matter how you define it, the battle was limited in its spread and most Indian rulers stayed loyal to the British. Hence they survived the war and eventually after ousting the Mughal emperor, handed the rule of India to the British Gov. Even during the Raj, the sub-continent wasn't 'ruled by the British'. Like the Mughals before them, the British were nominally incharge of 40% of land and ruled the rest through proxy of 560+ local rulers who were semi-autonomous till 1947. I hope you find this info useful and update your presentation accordingly.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s. mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2016/03/lost-found-toward-a-living-heritage/ The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture. oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10 His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory. iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/ Timur Turk- Central Asia Uzbekistan L24? Uzbekistan J-M172 www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Emperor%20of%20India?=yresults Babur regarded himself a Timur-i Turk. books.google.com.tr/books?id=VW2HJL689wgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjby6OeyuzqAhVRzqYKHdW8AZ8Q6AEIJzAA#v=snippet&q=Turk&f=false (Baburnama) Ruy Gonzales de Clavjio books.google.com.tr/books?id=de9pTA-2d8UC&pg=PA72&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoypypqo3rAhU6i8MKHaNiBrYQ6AEIMzAB#v=snippet&q=Basileus&f=false Nimat Allah al Harawi/Mughal Chronicler www.wdl.org/en/item/3034/view/1/305/#q=Timar
2. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, a direct descendant of Turk-Mongol conqueror Timur, also known as Tamurlane. His mother was a direct descendant of Asia's conqueror Genghis Khan. 3. He ascended the throne of Fergana (now in Uzbekistan) in 1495, at the age of 12. In 1504, he conquered Kabul, which was an important citadel in Central Asia.
Babur was pure mongol from mother side ,and Turco Mongol from Timur. Both Turks and mongols cannot solely claim Mughals,just stop nationalizing lol. Mughals were proud of their family not any ethnicity. Fck Turks and mongols.
@F U B I agree. Dara had no military skill whatsoever. But I wouldn't say Aurangzeb saved the Mughal empire, rather he was the sole reason for it's decline. His wars in Deccan depleted the Mughal treasury to a unrecoverable amount.
@@MrPrathampatil Aurangzeb wars in Deccan was from a tactical point good for entire empire , he wanted to control everything. It was coming of Europeans who hasten their downfall Against Modern army and weapons they were bound to fall along with all the rebellions of nawabs and kings . And not to mention weak successors .
Fabulous, just fantastic way of narrating the history of land & its conquerors. I just want to add that kindly provide sources of your information as well , in my opinion it will add more beauty to such historical topics & contents , it ‘d be more helpful for students of history like me & would sound more authentic information to be relied upon ! Thanks 🙏
Babur was a relative to mogul poet Mukhammad Khaidar from Dulat tribe, and also to emir Temurlang Ibn Taragay from Barlas tribe. Kazakh and Uzbek nomad turkic tribes brought remarkable infrastructure to India. 🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇲🇳🇹🇲🇭🇺🇹🇷🇦🇿🙋🏻♂️🇮🇳
@@arghunpride5704 yeah mughal architecture was good but you haven't seen our beautiful Indian architecture of southern India. We have some of the greatest temples in our country.
Not Kazakhs or Turks, Mughals were Persian and Mongols, taj mahal was built by Persians and Indians, Turks are primitive with no real culture, or architecture.
No single dynasty ruled India from Kabul to Kanyakumari...not even for a year or months...this exception is only for Emperor Ashoka and Chandrgupta Mourya 2nd. and south of india Including large parts of Maharastra never ruled by Moguls.
Chandragupta and ashok did with peace. The empire had 3 wars in total. I know ashoka had a bloody battle. But that was because chankaya died. Bascially he had no mentor. Other then that. They did with peace.
it's crazy how much history Turkic people have and how arguably are the greatest warriors ever but never get mentioned especially in the West. I use to hate history is school coz it was so boring but once I started doing my own research and finding out the truth and history about all empires and people, I love history now. last few years learning about history and how much impact the Turkic people have had on history is mind blowing.
A magnificent history stretching from Siberia to North Africa, from Poland to India is purposely covered up because the winners write the history and the owners of this magnificent history are not the last winners.
My mother is from Muslim Mughal family and my father is from Iranian origin. i am a Pakistani though. Even though i am raised in Islamabad, a modern and civilized city but the blood lust and ambition still in my blood from my mother side and there is no day where i dont workout and do martial arts. We still strike fear in the hearts of Hindu extremists. There is a reason Pakistan is small in size and small in population compared to India but still keep India on its toes. Valor is superior to numbers.
What do you mean by strike fear?? You invaded South India under Aurnagzeb and then after a few years you surrendered Delhi to the Marathas and they were protectors of Mughals How is that even creating fear?? Not a Maratha but your Mughal Empire is considered as a joke here in South who had several advantages but still lost the war And dude someday learn about 27 Year War and Battle of Delhi 1737 Mughals had 5-10 times numerical superiority over Marathas but still lost to Marathas Blitzkrieg tactics And even you had to surrender almost half of your manpower in 1971 And stop assuming we don't fear Pakistan anyway
@@indiafirst3676 lol for your information Pakistan has never lost in western sector, in 1971 there was a give and take of territory. Bangladesh how ever had just 0.1 million soldiers with low Ammo and Sub sonic F-86 Sabre for defense against a much larger Indian troops and Mig-21s. You have lost a lot of Mig-21 with the west Pakistan. Anyway what is your current position? 55% of your fighter jets are not use able due to poor maintenance, Your Air Force lost 10 Aircraft in just 6 months and 2 jets and one helicopter in skirmish with Pakistan. You have conflict with China now on the territory as well. You are in deep shit right now. at the end of this year we are gonna have a conventional war with you, lets see how well you perform then. What can we expect from a country that shot down their own chopper and accepted after 6 months. What a joke you guys are.
@@indiafirst3676 even the mughal empire reached its highest glory under Akbar because he chose Rajputs as allies to subdue Afghans who were controlling large parts of India, when Man singh was the general of Mughals they defeated Afghans all over India and hence consolidated the mughal empire and their textbooks don't teach about Akbar for the same reason that he compromised with radical islam to accomodate Rajputs and Hindus in his court, Pakistanis hate akbar for that.
Fun fact 🇲🇳, The Mughals were a Mongol and turkic empire. Search up, are mughals Mongol, and it will say "The name Mughal or Moghul is a corruption of the Persian word for Mongol, the Central Asian tribe after whom Mongolia is named. The Mughals originated in Central Asia, and were descended from the Mongol ruler Jenghiz Khan and Timur (Tamburlaine), the great conqueror of Asia"
Yeah it's origin is turco mongol but certainly not Turkic or mongol empire This empire was totally based in india ,followed indian culture and about 11 of the 17 mughal mothers were indian
Mongols and Turks mixed in that region and they related distantly. But some people just love to ignore Turks. But our emotions don't matter, we should look at the sources. Just read Ali-Shir Nava-i's opinions on Turkish and read "Baburnama" (Written in Chagatai Turkish), in there you can even read Babur's words about how much he despises Mongols even though his mother is a Mongol. The worst part is, in the video Epimetheus says "Iranian Safavids", that's a shame. They spoke Turkish which is less Persianized than Ottomans. Those guys are more Turk than Ottomans.
Just because they lived in Iran we call them Iranian. In that logic, we should call Ottomans as Romans. Great video by the way, except the "Safavid" part : )
By your logic, mughals are persian then just because they spoke persian as their official language. Safavid dynasty is an iranian dynasty of kurdish origin, so does the language matters to you that much?
It was Akbar who was one of the best rulers of his dynasty. The fall of the empire started after Jehangir. And also Shajehan was imprisoned by Aurangzeb and he died in imprisonment. The only good thing out of the Mughal dynasty was that each king used to work and earn from that particular opposition. Kingdoms fall because a prince has to wait for his father to die and succeed power.
Truly Akbar was a far-sighted man, his liberal policies with his multi cultural and religious subjects was way ahead of its time. No contemporary of his shows the same tact. Jehangir was wise enough not to meddle too much with his father's policies. It started going downhill with Shah Jahan and culminated with Aurangzeb.
@Epimetheus Always great work. Would love to show this to my 7th grade World History class and give props and recommend your channel of course! We're currently transitioning from the Gupta Empire into the Mughals.
I would not say so. The Deccan conquests by Aurangzeb were maintained by Asaf Jah who held the territories until 1748 who remained loyal to the Mughal Empire. People tend to forget, the Marathas accepted Mughal Suzerainity after Aurangzebs death.
@gulag master Asaf Jah held the Deccan until 1748 and planted the Mughal Flag deep into Tamil Nadu. Do not forget that right after Aurangzebs death, Marathas accepted Mughal Suzerainity. It was only after 1720 that Marathas began conquering territory but even then Shahu never relinquished the Mughal Suzerainity and Nana Balaji called him self as the "agent of the Mughal Sultanate". The relations between Mughals and Marathas is complexed and its easily misunderstood by nationalists.
@gulag master The Marathas had to serve the Mughals for many reasons. Firstly, North Indians, Hindus and Muslims alike despised the Marathas as savages and invaders from the Deccan. Hence, Marathas required legitimacy, they had none, and they knew only through the person of "Shahenshah E Hind", they could gain some form of legitimacy as the Mughal was symbolically the most respected and legitimate Emperor of all of India, with Rajas and Princes all over India seeking recognition from the Mughal throne. Second, the agents of the Mughal (Marathas), as they styled themselves were under oath of treaty to protect the Mughal Empire from internal and external threat. There is no shame in this as Baji Roa the second, also became a pensioner of the British, hence being protected by them.
listen - very few have as much to say as you do - your videos are always informative and interesting , and visually intriguing , BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE THEM LONGER , OR SCALE DOWN THE SCOPE OF THE ISSUES , the amount of information given is dizzying and at the same time not enough - it's always too interesting to be rushed through - take your time ! your stories are our history !
Seeing those dangerously low and useless parapets on mughal buildings in Delhi, you're forced to imagine someone falling over and dying. You'd imagine they'd learn their lesson from humayun and build higher parapets, but they didn't,did they?
The art quality and the 'calmness' in narration with these videos are truly spectacular
@@albatros33 Diğer Türk hesaplar Cevapları kaynak vererek vermişler zaten; hepsine like' kastım. Bunu söyleyende bir afghan zaten; ciddiye bile almayın.
Daha ülke kuramayan neandarthaller ağlıyorlar.
@@albatros33 Ben en son baktığımda afghanlar sövüyordu; yahu bunlara kalsa Göktuklere bile moğol derler; sebebini söylemek istemediğim sebeplerden iranlılar; afganlar; bazı pakistanlılar (genellikle bayağı ar*plar)'ın bize karşı bayağı açık nefreti ve kıskançlığı var; 1500 yıl 2000 yıl önce olan olaylar için !!!
@@albatros33 Bunu ciddi olarak soyleyemezler; soylerlerse hangi ''kitleye'' ait oldukları bellidir; indi-aryan' diye hava atarlar ama bir britanyalı bir afganla - hintli ile 3 metre yakın mesafede durmaz!
Nedir bu tarihi revizyonculuk aşkı ?
Wikipedia' bile doldu bunların adminleri ile; Zazalara etnik olarak bir ırk değil diyorlar! Türklere kötü olan ne varsa bilimselmiş gibi saydiriyorlar!
The narration was too soft this time. Had to raise the volume really high
@@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC It is more easy to listen on headphones and devices, the volume sounds very eaqualified than
Humayun: "Imma restablish the Mughal Empire"
Stone Stairs: "Imma end this Mughal's whole career"
Humayun: LAG IS REAL FOLKS
@@shantaperez5233 I mean yeah but its said to because of the curse of the kohinoor
😆
Could have been worse, a random staircase deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Do not climb those. Run when you see them.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
so babur is basically a mount and blades protagonist
With his start as a kerghit. but then as independent when scureing his first castle.
LESS TALKING MORE RAIDING
@@marcuskohler8143 *I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL*
Your money or your life.
Just like Tamerlane
I've always found it kind of amusing how "Akbar the Great" translates to "The Greatest the Great"
😂😂
@truthseeker bruh stop spamming the same comments
His name would have been Jalal Mohammad Akbar, Jalal Mohammad the Great.
@truthseeker I'm not sure how that's relevant to my comment, but okay buddy.
@Kuldeep Kumar He was.
The most fascinating thing to me is the Marathas couldn't do away with the Mughal emperor despite having him as a puppet. That speaks of the lasting influence of the might of the empire. Even the British couldn't dare to execute the Mughal emperor and exiled him only after things took a really bad turn.
Good point
@Ganda Bacha not South but Central
@@monsieur1936 more particularly the Deccan plateau
@Ganda Bacha and BECAUSE Martha is hords united not a empire like United states
and bajirao the greatest commander of martha ever
dosent wanna destroy MAUGHAL empire because the control of india of Delhi is a old system who leadership indians people
but if him DESTROY MAUGHAL empire
maybe the bloodiest civil ever in history can be
rajbot vc Martha vc Bengal vc benjab vc sikh vc decan vc Tamil vc myssour sultanat
great civil war destroy india
and BRITISH watch indian destroy him self MAYBE if these happend
british will conquer india in 5 years not 100 years
BECAUSE the population in india will be so small because the civil war
What would've happened if the emporer got executed?
Delhi: *was sacked by Afghan,Timurids,Maratha,Sikhs,British* welp it's having some hard time there
@Sahibzada Haider ali Punjabis did though.
We are and always have been the most influential In the region
also added timur persian lion nadir sah
@@anantissar4028 you do realise rapists murderers are considered heroes in Islam you must be new to Islam their ideology is all about killing murdering and raping infidels
Sahibzada Haider ali Sikhs entered delhi in 1783 under the leadership of Jassa Singh ahuliwala.He captured Red Fort and decided to excute mughal king but her harem women pleaded for mercy .But he ordered to built saheedganj sahib gurudwara dedicated to shri guru tegbahadur ji
I have been to Delhi, it is said that everyone who passed through Delhi sacked it, but Delhi kept standing up again.
Babur and Humayun both showed if you never give up, you'll be rewarded!
Ayee Hikma is here, suggestion: make a video answering Epimethus' last question about closer to whom was the empire, Akbar or the other bad guy
@@totalwartimelapses6359 Hey! That's not the worse idea in the world...
@gulag master Bairam Khan was pivotal but taking all credit away from Humayun isn't fair. Without his resilience to constantly keep trying, the re-institution of the Mughal State would have been inconceivable.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
Where do you always get your sources for all the costumes and clothes? - Always fantastic!
@Lethwei Mauithai fuck youuuu
@Lethwei Mauithai you should say that to epimetheus directly
@@kaderpdi1982 I don't understand what's happening here
@@flamixflame2685 Just don't look and loot their cities.
Pinterest bro
This is how history should be seen - dispassionately and factually.
So the ideal historian is a Jedi?
Chanahgamvari are you an Indian Hindu?
Actually no. He didn't mention most of slaughtering of infidels and even after Mughals intermingled with Indians and had children still calling them turko Persians is just plain pathetic but it's just my opinion and I could be wrong ...
I largely agree but I think there's room for a bit of passion. It's important to understand why people are so passionate and angry about historical issues so we can try to solve them going forward, even if their passions are misplaced.
Bobur was Uzbek. ☝️ Barlos is Uzbek tribe
For those who want a "Game of Mughals", there's a series called Siyasat, it is quite a good portrayal of politics, internal conflicts and social dynamics of personal lives of Mughal emperors.
Did you know "siyasat" just means politics
Siyasat in malay language pronounce as siasat mean investigate
@@gandalfthewhite2252 it means politics in Urdu.
@@gandalfthewhite2252 It's the exact same in Tagalog (albeit spelled as "Siyasat").
Same in farsi
My favorite history channel. Great mix of interesting visuals, serious summary and an awesome narrators voice!
Thanks :)
Kagemusha is an awesome username...and movie
@@EpimetheusHistory graphics ar not that impressive
@@abhinavchauhan7864 I don't think so😐
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
-mongols invaded the whole world except india*
indians: oooh that was close call
-mongols turned muslims and coming toward india!
indians: wHy i hEaR bOsS mUsiC
Well we were the ones who successfully took their body holes and threw them to pakistan 🙂
Mughals considered themselves turks
@@eren9001 Barbur had genghis Khan on his mother side :V
@@imnik2118yes but you know kuch haramkhor yahi reh gye 🧐🧐
@@nuclear9977 😂 ikr
now this deserves a TV series, not like GoT where the depressed dragon goes missing, the 1000 yr throne gets melted in minutes and a new movable throne currently held by the cripple.
YES PLEASE!
Just like ertuğrul's
Hopefully someone on Netflix will come up with a TV series on the Mughal Empire.
Ok boomer
`The throne is 300 year old.
I was literally just studying this time period. Thanks for uploading this!
Also, could you please do the Incas next? Or Ancient Peru in general?
Check extra credits for the incas.
TheRussian Walrus oh I watch extra credits too, but thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check out since I haven’t seen that video yet.
Still, I wanted to see Epimetheus’s take on it since he has already done a video on Ancient Mexican cultures.
Facts about mughal is misleading and distracting .They were a cruel monster and a thirsty drackula eager to drink the blood of poor non Muslims
@@AdityaSingh-ku3cv ok boomer
@@scoringbox2176 Incas were biggest and strongest army at that time but a femine wiped out Almost all of them.
i genuinely felt really bad for Humayun. imagine needing to seek refuge from literally everyone and then dying from a staircase
lol
Bad fortune rarely comes alone
sacrifice needed for the addiction of knowledge XD
A game of thrones: Mughal
_Coming soon_
That story would be so unbelievable people would think dragons were more realistic.
Fall of mughgals started after death of aurangzeb. Sons of aurangzeb started practicing extreme tolarance which caused them to lower taxes and deep friendship with non-muslims. then As aurangzeb once feared, the non-muslim officials berayed mughal emperors and took many of its states. I call it "Bamboo of extreme tolarance in the @ss of mughal emperors caused its fall''
@@LionsHeart3.1.3Well that was expected the same happened with Suleiman I's son Selim II
@@Nixo77don't believe stupid bots well in any empire after gazavinds they all had minister from different religion well british surely played a big roll in fall of Mughals bcz they started a good amount of divide and rule which caused 200 years of colonization it's not like they were out dated but at first they could defeat them but all of them were fighting each other then got miserable at end bcz of curropt in every empire
An empire with fascinating history, nice
@truthseeker BASED Babur
@truthseeker are you on drugs? What are you implying? All kings and generals of the past are evil by today's standards even Hindu raja's
Dana Westwolf Where did I mention Columbus?
@truthseeker sounds pretty rad by 16th century standards
An empire with black history hiding the martyrdom of 3gurus and many sikhs and various forcefully conversion
it's amazing that babur went from an exile to an emperor
@gulag master yes but it is still amazing!
@gulag master The battle was with Afghans and Maratha
In which Afghans won. YaY
@Arambai Laishram yes
Babur was supported by an Indian warlord Rana Sangam Singh of Mewer . Rana Invited him to defect the Lodhi's but Babur took advantage of the power vacuum and ill-equipped Subcontinental army .First defected Babur than Rana Sanga and led to the foundation of Mughal empire .
hardly an emperor, he was always on the run. read more accurate history. he did not even defeated rana sanga as the historians describe, for next 3 years of the battle of khanwa, he dare not attack Rana Sanga's domain, rather he advanced to other eastern states of the country. He was also a coward who usually never fought in the battles till he got sure that the victory was at hand. He always surrounded himself with a personal contingent. Regarding an emperor, he (and his predecessors) could never again win their own land back, besides the most important factor an emperor should have is direct control of a vast land (neither he or his predecessors did), peace was almost non-existent, never worked for the betterment of local populace (an emperor has to be working on that is a must), technically he was just exploiting. Different people have different theory of emperor, as the topic is babur, he was never an emperor. Also, in Islam, anybody could declare himself caliph, he was not even a caliph, how could he be an emperor. the whole idea is shi*.
The Mughals didn't use to call themselves the "Mughals" during their reign. They use to call themselves Gurkani.
They were named Mogul by the British, and later the local accents pronounced it as Mughal. Their real name during their reign was Gurkani. Which means the son in laws (of Ghengis Khan).
From Wikipedia: "Gurkani" means "son-in-law" (of Genghis Khan). The nomenclature Mughal Empire is of English origin and not the name by which the empire was known then or designated.
Thanks for the information.
This so called 'Gurkani' was a nefarious lot. Most inhumane and barbaric scoundrels.
Jasjot Heer Mughals are Uzbeks
@@ДжакамоКазанова yes
@@ДжакамоКазанова but why they look like mongols
@@mahendrawankhade3533 what?
An absolutely beautiful opening. Please do more of this!
Fascinating! This is a period that I can claim to know a little about, and I'm simply awed that you cover pretty much all in 10 minutes. I enjoyed it very much. To answer you, while you are of course right about Turkic genealogical origins I believe the Mughals themselves would have answered that were Uzbek; given Babar's home in Ferghana and the reverence all his successors had for the idea and myth of Ferghana. They maintained Uzbek family habits and rituals in their private lives and there were many Uzbek commanders in their armies. But they never saw Ferghana again, Kabul was their favoured city, treasured for its climate and the beautiful gardens that they installed. It reminded them of their mountain origins. As mountain Uzbeks however they were rustic and unpolished. This changed with wealth and stability and especially due to Humayun's exile in Persia and the subsequent two generations of friendly relations between the two Empires. The Mughals came to surpass the Persians in empire and wealth yet the Mughal court considered the Persian court the pinnacle of sophistication and elegance, and tried to emulate them most sincerely.
To sum up, they started as Uzbeks of Turkic origin who aspired for Persian culture but ultimately they became decidedly Indian - for the talent of India is such that whomever has conquered it ultimately became assimilated and changed to such extent that if a traveler from their lands of origin suddenly met them he would find them quite unfamiliar.
2. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, a direct descendant of Turk-Mongol conqueror Timur, also known as Tamurlane. His mother was a direct descendant of Asia's conqueror Genghis Khan.
3. He ascended the throne of Fergana (now in Uzbekistan) in 1495, at the age of 12. In 1504, he conquered Kabul, which was an important citadel in Central Asia.
@@kingoftheworld22 we are talking about empire not babur
Babur was definitely turco mongol but the name of empire was hindustan
Even rulers became indian over time
Your statement cannot be more truthful
Babur always misses his fatherland, so sad that his funeral isn't in Andijan. Not Fergana. I am from Uzbekistan, and we know more better
@@Ankit-d9f4u You would be surprised to know that even in today's modern uzbekistan we call india as "hindistan" a place where hind people live.
Moguls: 'We are one of the greatest empires India has ever seen'.
British Empire: 'I'm about to end this man's whole career'.
@@jackclark1916 you are really stupid if you believe Britain did India a favour, they destroyed the economy and used it to build the uk, india was left in ruins , they only thing they gave was trains at the cost of millions of lives and betrayal
Wrong
Sikhs (mainly) plus British empire: I’m about to end this mans whole career, repeatedly
@@jackclark1916 that is a complete farce, india during the 1700s had a estimated economy of 25% of world gdp, during its independence it went down to 2%, the british took alot of resources from india and too say it never profited is a complete lie, there is a reason to why it was called the jewel of the crown you know, i am only talking of a economical perspective as well, not the social which was far worse, force converting, blackmail, rape and murder too only name a few, also the catalyst of the bengal famine as well which resulted in over a million deaths, india would of caught up undoubtedly with the west, maybe not as advanced but still not as bad as what it was left at, when the british left, btw im not indian
Bitch deal with brexit first
@@Muwahhid123 yeah but thats because the rest of the world went off the scale in terms of economic growth at that time, the actual indian economy stayed about the same. Not that it wasn't run to feed British industry but you've got to give it to them. They got the Indians to do the occupation and administration of it as well, there were hardly any british soldiers in the entire place.
A note....North East India was never captured by the Mughal empire. The Mughal invasion in Assam was defeated by the great Assamese/Ahom general Lachit Borphukon..
nor the Deccan region ruled by Maratha region check it out
@@niteshghuge7274 wow... Was not aware of this.. Thanks....i will study about it.. Thanks again brother..
The people of North East India are very patriotic andbrave. Therfore they never defeated by any other aleins....
@@gauravpatil3596 Thanks Gaurav..Jai Hind!
Same with tamils
I suggest checking out "Zafarnama". It was a letter written to Aungzerab by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Guru Gobind Singh installed a warrior mindset amongst the Sikhs and started the rebellion against Aungzerab.
Sikhs are british slaves. Nothing more.
Guru Gobind Singh ji shot a arrow through a window which nearly hit his arm which had the Zafernama attached to the arrow it states that next time he will hit his head next time
As a Sikh, thoroughly impressed by how badass the Sikh warrior looks! :D
Why you said as a sikh ?
@Nik 13 bravery is the reason we india gets rules 1000 years. We indians gives too much credit to bravery and very little to skills. War ar not won by bravery but by skills. Bravery only gets you killed. Thats why we gets our ass kicked by every eraa-geraa-nathhu-khera. 1 we never respected enemy. 2 we never respected the importance of technology in wars. 3 we never respected the importance of strategy in wars. Wars ar not fought by screaming and filmy dialogs of bravery and BS. *WAR IS A ART WE HAD A LOT OF BRAVE WARRIORS BUT VERY LITTLE MILLITRY TECHNICIANS WHO UNDERSTOOD THE ART OF WAR*
@Snow 123 thats what i said.
@@abhinavchauhan7864 who is this we? You might be a Rajput. Because we Marathas always gave importance to strategy and technology over useless ideals and principles. We employed French generals to train our infantry. We incorporated europeans cannons and muskets in the 18th century. Read about Mahadji scindia and de boigne. First go and read history and then comment
Rohit Raut yes but the Marathas finally rebelled after a very long time of foreign rule.
You lost me at 6:20 .. Aurangzeb killed all of his brother and detained his father shahjahan ( he died old in a big fort and not before succession)
don't he try to kill his owe son Akber
Dont vomit British hindu historians
@@gauravpalande5524 Ashoka killed his 99 brothers
@@saifalik6226 ashoka chutiya tha aur jhatu aurangzeb jaisa
@@gauravpalande5524 Waise Maurya Empire aur Mughal Empire ki (maximum) territories match nahi kartein? In addition to military adventures by Ashoka and Aurangzeb
Mughal Empire was literally a big empire in Indian history, which started from 1526 and continued till 1857. Though the fact is the empire lasted till 1707, the later Mughals and the entry of British in India also involved in this.
Kid ever heard about Ashoka Empire,mauryan dynasty
Meanwhile Ahoms ,Mallas,:- 🥂" but You Maleechas come to my lands"
@@ronnis1679 yeah it collapsed in less than half a century after ashoka
The Mauryans only had 2 great rulers, Anahola and his father chandragupta maurya
@@ronnis1679 you are kid here
@@ronnis1679 Kid ever heard of sungas kushans, mauryans and sakas
It be cool to see a video on Vijayanagar Empire
And Chola
@@asliaffan idiots such as you might learns something from it
@@asliaffan it two of south India's greatest empires which defined the region for years to come
@@arjunarun3033 be nice
Historymarche already did
Your maps have really improved!!
That was a very good consice video. Thoroughly entertaining and a good basic coverage of the facts👍👍👍
Really great and interesting as always, i was always amazed how people from the Steppe conquered greater civilizations and became their rulers, just look into the history of India, Iran, Anatolia and later all this nomadic cultures dissapeared because they took local culture and customs
Exactly...Turks became local...
There is a video called "how to become a dominant race?" It tells same tale
But it didn't happened in India,
The non-magic people from the Harry Potter universe?
😂😂
No the bumps on a ski hill
That was an excellent one XD XD XD Muggles and our Mughals.
Muggers 😂 funny AF
pst, dont say that too loud or else rowling will tweet-retcon it into canon again...
man your animations are so good. they're incredible
@Dana Westwolf wtf are you talking about?
Rajputs, Sikh and Maratha Destroyed The Mughals. Then British Company just Ripped them.
Moron Aurangzeb was only who defeated British check bbc hindi its say all in which British channel accept this
Shoeb Ahmed oh course the BBC (a British source) is going to say that
@@Ydidutakemyname check their video on Aurangzeb na baby idhar bolne se Pele ek baar check kr le
YOURE WRONG AFTER THE DEATH OF AURANGZEB THE MUGHAL EMPIRE STARTED DECLING NOT BECAUSE OF THE SO CALLED BRAVE PEOPLE . IT WAS THE MUGHALS THEMSELVES WHO STARTED TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES . CORRUPTION HAD BECOME RAMPANT , THE RULERS HAD BECOME ALCOHOLICS AND WERE MORE INTERESTED IN WOMENS THAN THEIR EMPIRES. HISTORY HAS IT THAT CORRUPTION CAN BRING DOWN THE BIGGEST EMPIRES . FOR THOSE OF YOU THINKING THAT THESE JATS, SIKHS AND OTHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MUGHALS DECLINE YOURE WRONG THE MUGHALS THEMSEVES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN DOWNFALL. IF YOU ARE A MAHARASHTRIAN PLEASE DONT READ THIS THESE WORDS WILL NEVER GO INTO YOUR BRAIN BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE STILL THINK HIDING BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS IS BRAVERY.
@@alishaikh7877 that's correct infighting and corruption eat the whole mighty mughal empire and after that British conquered whole indian subcontinent through wars, divide and rule policy, etc the British Raj was very harsh and it can be felt today also the divide created for their own profit is now same used by todays indian politicians for their own benefits can't u people see the population who rebelled only under the banner of mughal emperor ( was just a powerless emperor) against British.
Kudos to the way the narrator pronounced "Jahangir"
Battle of panipat /Maratha Empire and mughal-maratha 27 war deserve a separate video.
Had vishwas rao or bhau survived the panipat or madhav rao didnt die young .India would be different dont know good or bad but certainly different
.
Who is vishwasrao or bhau explain
@@goldenmemes51 Sadhashiv rao (Know as Bhau ,term of respect) was son of chimmaji Appa .First Cousin of Peshwa Balaji baji rao
He never lost any battle till third battle of panipat,where he was commander-in-chief of around 40k soldier and on died battle field .
Vishwasrao was son or heir apparent of Balaji baji Rao ,grand son of illustrious balaji bhat,nephew of bhau .
@Shem Naga
Yeah cause humans can imagine. Which makes them able to do many creative things .
@Future Cybertron nadir shah came in 1739-40 after hearing that some maratha's had defeated the mughal at bhopal and battle of delhi in 1737,routing the whole imperial army.
Secondly maratha fought three battle with british .
Last Hyder-Tipu were trained by french specially under de bussy ,for i guess make in india- Rafale initiative ,mysore was defeated and needed to pay chauth to maratha under woodyer king as per baji rao and bhonsle expediation ,which eventually tipu agreed to pay as treaty of Gajendragad.His father alsoagrredto pay same after madhav rao expedition
@@himanshutyagi5798
In summary marathas was a fish trying to swim to the top of a leaking barrel
The British were already taking large swaths of land
And even when they pushed the last mughal emperor into Delhi they kept him on rather than depose him
Why?
Legitimacy that's why
Having amughal emperor still ruling in Delhi ensured the loyalty of the muslims within their realm
Even still they didn't last long
Wiki page is wrong
Marathas barely last century and their peak was less than 40 years
The wiki page adds on years from the early period as a conclave in the deccan coast even though they were getting hammered by aurengzeb while swallowed the entire deccan region
Indians were never united and that is why foreigners such as mughals. Iranians ,french, british invaded India. Even now they are not united. They are acustomed to fight each other.
this is pretty natural. cause the religious-cultural social fabric of indian subcontinent have nurtured and promoted "class/caste system" for thousand of years that itself discriminate between various groups of a society. consequently, the invaders took advantage of that and ruled them in different periods of history.
@Manu Kum if you're even remotely connected with India you should know by what time Aryan race came to India, when did the rise of Brahmins Sanskrit based aristrocacy reshaped Indian religious & socio cultural fabric with the practice of caste /class system. Lastly whether in Indian mass people culture this system still dominantly exist or not. Considering all this factors when you will calculate the time period you would find it is well beyond 2000 years! Explore the below link for starter;
ruclips.net/video/HyCQDIwHlXY/видео.html
@@TheValobalok Aryan invasion theory is not true....promoted by Britishers to divide and conquer India...
@@rips69ify hahaha...good story bro! 👍👍😂😂
@@rips69ify I am sure you never gave a thought about why ethnically & culturally north & south India are so significantly different! Also don't really comprehend how "theory" and "facts" are classified in historical context! 👍
This was an amazing video, keep me the good work sir!
It's questionable to say that the Mughals were "a Persianized Turko-Mongol Warrior aristocracy" for their entire rule. They weren't really all that Turko-Mongol after the second generation; Humayun's mother may have been Iranian, and Akbar's mother certainly was. As Epimetheus mentioned, Akbar's successor had a Rajput mother, and married a Rajput princess himself. So, in terms of lineage, their third ruler was at least as Persian as Turko-Mongol, and after that his descendants were more Indian than anything. In terms of culture, meanwhile, they didn't really have a lot of holdovers from their Turko-Mongol ancestors after Akbar, and became much more culturally Indo-Persian.
Good points
whatever it is, they couldnt be an Indian empire since they are foreign forces that invaded.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s.
mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2016/03/lost-found-toward-a-living-heritage/
The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame).
Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture.
oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10
His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory.
iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/
Timur Turk- Central Asia Uzbekistan L24? Uzbekistan J-M172
www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Emperor%20of%20India?=yresults
Babur regarded himself a Timur-i Turk.
books.google.com.tr/books?id=VW2HJL689wgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjby6OeyuzqAhVRzqYKHdW8AZ8Q6AEIJzAA#v=snippet&q=Turk&f=false (Baburnama)
Ruy Gonzales de Clavjio
books.google.com.tr/books?id=de9pTA-2d8UC&pg=PA72&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoypypqo3rAhU6i8MKHaNiBrYQ6AEIMzAB#v=snippet&q=Basileus&f=false
Nimat Allah al Harawi/Mughal Chronicler
www.wdl.org/en/item/3034/view/1/305/#q=Timar
@@albatros33 No, that only applies to Babur, since he had Turkic ancestry on his dad's side and Mongol ancestry on his mum's side; Humayun was either Turko-Mongol on both sides or Turko-Mongol paternally and Persian maternally, and Humayun's son was definitely Persian maternally and Turk-Mongol paternally, and so on and so forth, as I described.
Turk empire according to Babur Shah lol
How do you produce so much content? You make alot of good content consistently, it would be awesome if you shared your production routine. I think it would help all of us interested in content creation. I hope you keep creating awesome stuff!
@Epimetheus I second this, would love to know more about your process!!
I third this.
Would love to know how to be so efficient and effective
Lingering Moghul influence is even evident in Indian cuisine. The tandoor oven, widely used in India, originated in Central Asia as did naan bread.
Akbar was first powerful emperor and Aurangzeb was last After That they are puppets Either of Waziers, Marathas, Subhedars, British and looted by Marathas,persians,durrani, Sikhs .
So I consider Mughal rule from Akbar-Aurangzeb
@VK Firstly, there was no Hindu vs Muslim war. It was a propaganda used by Muslim invader just like Maratha used Hindu Swaraj slogan to raise moral. Secondly, so Prithivraj Chauhan's victory in 1st battle of Terrain, Hemu taking Delhi from Mughals (brief but was still a victory), Mewar stopping invasions under Bappa Rawal, Battle of Dewar where Maharana Pratap claimed majority of his territory back, Extension of Maratha empire under Peshwa Bajirao and Chatrapati Shivaji, the rebellion of Rajput alliance in 1700s was a myth I guess according to you? Thirdly, even after almost 10 centuries of invasion India is still a Hindu majority even tho we were forced to convert pay non Muslim taxes , brutalized by many invaders yet we are still surviving how did that happen? Reality is that Indian subcontinent history goes way back even before Christianity or Islam was born. I only gave you example of resistance against muslims but many other rulers in history have been defending against European invasions. Hinduism is the only prehistoric religion that has survived. Reality is if you go right back since the start of Indian subcontinent existence they have defend and won way more battles then lost its just Britishers and later Congress distorted history to only talk about history from Mughal dynasty onwards to get vote bank or create muslim-hindu divide which Britishers succeeded as you can see Bharat got divided into India and Pakistan and then later Bangladesh also.
@@Angrypatriot_1 you ar wrong hinduism of today has nothing to do with Hinduism of prehistoric time. Every hindu book and text has been heavily edited. So no hinduism has not survived.
@VK India?
More like north India
Love your content, I learn so much about parts of history that we are not often educated about (I'm a Brit). I'd always assumed the Moguls must be related to the Mongols, by similarity of name and time periods, but interesting to learn the truth. Absolutely fascinating material, delivered concisely and with visual fair. Subscribed!
@ABCDE751 no they never used Turkic language
They used Persian language and later indian language
Yes they speak Turkic language..stop being pathetic.. They used persian for diplomacy probably... What you are doing is like africans claims french history because they use french language in state affairs
..you have No business here
gtfo here.
"Ankit"or whatewer shit you are
@@sktt1488 only initial mughals spoke Turkic language you dimwit
Stop claiming others history
Mughals spoke persian and later Urdu
Turkic was never a common language
All the capital of Mughal empire are based in india
The name of Mughal empire was also hindustan
So stfu and get lost
@ABCDE751 in which scripture or any history evidence said they talked Turkic? official language literature everything else not Turkic
The majority of mughal empire rule lasted from 1556-1740 for 200 years, In the last 100 years the empire was basically inside Delhi city with emperor in the name only.
They called themselves Shahanshah E Hindostan, it became an Indian equivalent of Roman Emperor and thus it was so prestigious that for the next century both Marathas and British tried to legitimise their rule in North India by being protector of the Mughal Emperor.
I clicked faster than the Mughal invasion
Thanks for making me laugh brother.
@@PakistanDefenseForum Babar Couldn't include the whole of Bengal or the Burma. It's probably at the time of Akbar all those parts were united under the Mughal Banner.
I clicked faster than how khalsa army banged Mughals
Aditya Singh Yes brother
@@AdityaSingh-ku3cv yes you can defeat mughal when they become weak
my favorite you tube history channel
Pretty cool channel for sure
Soon my finances will be OK again. I’ll begin donating to you via patreon.
Another great Epimethius glimpse at a very important but extremely overlooked chapter of world history.
That was a really good video. Thanks
Originally Mughal empire was Tamerlan's grandson Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur( Babur means Tiger in Uzbek and Urdu languages)
Bahut or babbar? Babbar Sher is a term
Babur*
This is so well condensed. Keep up the great work!
Good stuff as always bro!
I spent my entire High School learning what is explained in his 10 minute video.
I love the beginning, it reminds me of Pulp Fiction. Looks like same font and Dictionary.
Blitz Krieg “way to not be a square Daddy-O”
im a bangladeshi so when he said how the wealthy region of bengal broke away,pride was imminent
Do a video on Southern Indian Kingdoms that never got invaded
Britis...... H
@@Lmao69 im pretty sure they meant never by the mughals
@@Quetsalcoatvl maybe
What a fun n fascinating video. Great job to whoever made this video.
As a sikh ( people will debate my outlook on this ) aurangzeb was a very religous man, but a cruel and harsh ruler on the other hand his ancestor akbar was well loved by both muslims and non muslims his biggest accomplishment was removing the religous tax. So if I had to choose I would pick akhbar.
thats true and to be honest earlier he wasnt that, the court minister and wazirs in later stages of life turned him into what he became
@@yasinjamal7517 you are absolute right i herd a story about him that once he said a quote from Guru Nanak Dev ji and his ministers addressed him that he should not heed to those quotes since its a non believers words. He then addressed that when he studied in his madrassa his maulvi used to say that quote to remind them of there doings or something.
I disagreed on the tax stuff. countries run in tax, and im pretty sure the mughal citizens during that time was not burdened by heavy tax at all, the only major tax imposed on them was religious tax. And most nob muslims only them have to pay tax because of the jizya whrn muslims themselves have tocpay zakat.
It was a political propaganda if anything.
@@zebimicio5204 listen to what your saying a people have to pay taxes because they are not of that faith lol it's a political and religious injustice.
@@aaak3590 tax on non muslims is called jizya. Its not because they're not of that faith lol. Muslims also have to pay their own tax whoch is the zakat. Difference between those two is that zakat is compulsary. But both aim is to rejuvinate the economy and help the poor
This is what i meant by non muslims doesn't understand the concept and took the political propaganda purely at face value.
If you want to criticize a taxing system then rome is your best bet since they taxed literally everyone even the people who they think as barbaric and denied citizenship.
History going smoothly...
British... Ah HeRe We Go AgAiN
🤣🤣🤣British came and destroyed they can't sit without destruction
Ah, yes, it was all smooth pillaging, plundering, and looting until the British came to pillage, plunder, and loot.
haha you hypocrites
@@htf5555 who? Me?
Do u know that British empire could destroy mughal empire in 1 day? 😂
it's about time you uploaded
India is forever grateful to our warrior Sikhs for winning
Nadar Shah the persian made that possible defeating the moguls and weakening them.
@@peterhamilton8242 lol they were already beaten before lol
@@suhassreehari876 due to inner conflict, afghan and maratha attacks not sikhs
Syed Khalil than who is maratha becouse in time of mughal india was flourished economical
@@peterhamilton8242 Nader Shah was a Turk.
lol human died after tripping on some stairs
You haven't seen stairs of a castle have you?
Homayun*
@@ShahStark df is a homayun
@Micahistory Why is that funny? People get injured/die from that even today. Besides, these were stone steps, not wooden remember?
@@bryguysays2948 It's funny because of all things a powerful emperor like Humayun could've died from,it was a staircase. I mean he survived being decapitated in battle only to die in the most humiliating way during peacetime lmao.
Your content sustains me
:D
Do one on the Delhi Sultanate Khwarazmian Dynasty and Ghaznavid dynasty
@Hassan Abdulsalam kilji are turk only sur and lodi empire is afghan
Hassan A
Khalji is Turkish,propagandist friend
This missed many things.... Important things
I'm Indian and I love history and I'm history student
I would definitely suggest your channel to my school to get their history teachers a revision.
Very Well said. Though they were distand decendants of mongols, the empires source (from where the army was formed) were Afghanistan.
He was always a true Uzbek, so to say. Born in Uzbekistan, Grandson of the greatest Uzbek leader Tamerlane, how could you say he was Afghani? Even today, the people who live in where Babur hided and gained armies from are classified as ethnic Uzbeks, even if they live/lived in Afghanistan.
He is (truly) can only be credited to mongols, his genes were spread, but id give credit truly to mongols only
@Angry Young Man Vanquisher of Tyranny nah. fuck india. we will just let indians cry about what we did to them. lol.
@@durbekhakimov4417 hazara and Not uzbeki babur
@@durbekhakimov4417 actually hazara and not uzbeks tamerlane / babur and the uzbeks were enemies
Great presentation. Just some additions and corrections.
Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his youngest son Aurangzeb for 8 years. He used king's illness as a perfect pretext to kill off his brothers, cousins and nephews to usurp the throne. Shah Jahan was nominally called the Emperor till he died. So the fratricide and war of succession happened 8 years before Shah Jahan died.
Even at their height, Mughals didn't directly control as much land as maps show. Much of Rajputana in west was controlled by Rajputs who were semi-autonomous, though nominally under the Mughal rule. Marathas were also battling in the west and the land under Mughal control was constantly shifting.
The British East India Company grabbed some Indian land through war, but majority was through leaky contracts that they interpreted to benefit themselves. eg - Jhasi - where they disallowed the king's adopted son from taking over after the king's death and usurped the kingdom themselves.
The term 'Indian Rebellion' is severally incorrect. You can rebel against a legitimate ruler. The Company was not a legitimate ruler of India. Marathas, Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs - they were the legitimate rulers of India. Most Historians now term the war as '1st battle of Independence.'
No matter how you define it, the battle was limited in its spread and most Indian rulers stayed loyal to the British. Hence they survived the war and eventually after ousting the Mughal emperor, handed the rule of India to the British Gov.
Even during the Raj, the sub-continent wasn't 'ruled by the British'. Like the Mughals before them, the British were nominally incharge of 40% of land and ruled the rest through proxy of 560+ local rulers who were semi-autonomous till 1947.
I hope you find this info useful and update your presentation accordingly.
Aptly put forth...
Very well researched and presented.. thanks for sharing!!
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s.
mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2016/03/lost-found-toward-a-living-heritage/
The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame).
Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture.
oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10
His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory.
iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/
Timur Turk- Central Asia Uzbekistan L24? Uzbekistan J-M172
www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Emperor%20of%20India?=yresults
Babur regarded himself a Timur-i Turk.
books.google.com.tr/books?id=VW2HJL689wgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjby6OeyuzqAhVRzqYKHdW8AZ8Q6AEIJzAA#v=snippet&q=Turk&f=false (Baburnama)
Ruy Gonzales de Clavjio
books.google.com.tr/books?id=de9pTA-2d8UC&pg=PA72&dq=&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoypypqo3rAhU6i8MKHaNiBrYQ6AEIMzAB#v=snippet&q=Basileus&f=false
Nimat Allah al Harawi/Mughal Chronicler
www.wdl.org/en/item/3034/view/1/305/#q=Timar
2. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, a direct descendant of Turk-Mongol conqueror Timur, also known as Tamurlane. His mother was a direct descendant of Asia's conqueror Genghis Khan.
3. He ascended the throne of Fergana (now in Uzbekistan) in 1495, at the age of 12. In 1504, he conquered Kabul, which was an important citadel in Central Asia.
Babur was pure mongol from mother side ,and Turco Mongol from Timur. Both Turks and mongols cannot solely claim Mughals,just stop nationalizing lol. Mughals were proud of their family not any ethnicity. Fck Turks and mongols.
Shah Jahan wanted Dara Shikoh as his successor. When Aurangzeb defeated Dara Shikoh, he sent his father Dara's head on a platter
@F U B I agree. Dara had no military skill whatsoever. But I wouldn't say Aurangzeb saved the Mughal empire, rather he was the sole reason for it's decline. His wars in Deccan depleted the Mughal treasury to a unrecoverable amount.
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Aurangzeb wars in Deccan was from a tactical point good for entire empire , he wanted to control everything.
It was coming of Europeans who hasten their downfall
Against Modern army and weapons they were bound to fall along with all the rebellions of nawabs and kings .
And not to mention weak successors .
Fabulous, just fantastic way of narrating the history of land & its conquerors. I just want to add that kindly provide sources of your information as well , in my opinion it will add more beauty to such historical topics & contents , it ‘d be more helpful for students of history like me & would sound more authentic information to be relied upon !
Thanks 🙏
Babur was a relative to mogul poet Mukhammad Khaidar from Dulat tribe, and also to emir Temurlang Ibn Taragay from Barlas tribe.
Kazakh and Uzbek nomad turkic tribes brought remarkable infrastructure to India.
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Shakanaka Yes it is. But not all mughal tribes., just the mughal rulers drove out by Sheybanid Uzbeks.
@@arghunpride5704 yeah mughal architecture was good but you haven't seen our beautiful Indian architecture of southern India. We have some of the greatest temples in our country.
Mistake!!! Mongols aren’t included Turkic!!!
Why including Turkic countries? Uzbek Turks drove out the Mughals,nomadic Turks have nothing to do with Mughals
Not Kazakhs or Turks, Mughals were Persian and Mongols, taj mahal was built by Persians and Indians, Turks are primitive with no real culture, or architecture.
No single dynasty ruled India from Kabul to Kanyakumari...not even for a year or months...this exception is only for Emperor Ashoka and Chandrgupta Mourya 2nd. and south of india Including large parts of Maharastra never ruled by Moguls.
Chandragupta and ashok did with peace. The empire had 3 wars in total. I know ashoka had a bloody battle. But that was because chankaya died. Bascially he had no mentor. Other then that. They did with peace.
moguls ruled maharashtra
One dynasty does that 😂 it is the gandhi dynasty.nehru Indira gandhi and rajiv gandhi 😅😅
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
it's crazy how much history Turkic people have and how arguably are the greatest warriors ever but never get mentioned especially in the West. I use to hate history is school coz it was so boring but once I started doing my own research and finding out the truth and history about all empires and people, I love history now. last few years learning about history and how much impact the Turkic people have had on history is mind blowing.
A magnificent history stretching from Siberia to North Africa, from Poland to India is purposely covered up because the winners write the history and the owners of this magnificent history are not the last winners.
My mother is from Muslim Mughal family and my father is from Iranian origin. i am a Pakistani though. Even though i am raised in Islamabad, a modern and civilized city but the blood lust and ambition still in my blood from my mother side and there is no day where i dont workout and do martial arts. We still strike fear in the hearts of Hindu extremists. There is a reason Pakistan is small in size and small in population compared to India but still keep India on its toes. Valor is superior to numbers.
What do you mean by strike fear??
You invaded South India under Aurnagzeb and then after a few years you surrendered Delhi to the Marathas and they were protectors of Mughals
How is that even creating fear??
Not a Maratha but your Mughal Empire is considered as a joke here in South who had several advantages but still lost the war
And dude someday learn about 27 Year War and Battle of Delhi 1737
Mughals had 5-10 times numerical superiority over Marathas but still lost to Marathas Blitzkrieg tactics
And even you had to surrender almost half of your manpower in 1971
And stop assuming we don't fear Pakistan anyway
@@indiafirst3676 lol for your information Pakistan has never lost in western sector, in 1971 there was a give and take of territory. Bangladesh how ever had just 0.1 million soldiers with low Ammo and Sub sonic F-86 Sabre for defense against a much larger Indian troops and Mig-21s. You have lost a lot of Mig-21 with the west Pakistan. Anyway what is your current position? 55% of your fighter jets are not use able due to poor maintenance, Your Air Force lost 10 Aircraft in just 6 months and 2 jets and one helicopter in skirmish with Pakistan. You have conflict with China now on the territory as well. You are in deep shit right now. at the end of this year we are gonna have a conventional war with you, lets see how well you perform then. What can we expect from a country that shot down their own chopper and accepted after 6 months. What a joke you guys are.
@@pkavenger9990 lol nice joke yo guys can't touch India. Go to ur papa China and cry.
@@indiafirst3676 even the mughal empire reached its highest glory under Akbar because he chose Rajputs as allies to subdue Afghans who were controlling large parts of India, when Man singh was the general of Mughals they defeated Afghans all over India and hence consolidated the mughal empire and their textbooks don't teach about Akbar for the same reason that he compromised with radical islam to accomodate Rajputs and Hindus in his court, Pakistanis hate akbar for that.
Lost 4 wars but has the delusion of keeping India in it's toes. Economy is dead but the coping never will be. Also, no one is scared of idiots like u.
Thank u this is so informative
Very cohesively 300 years of Mughal rule put together. Thanks
Shah jahan is one of my favorite monarchs and dream of seeing the Taj Mahal one day.
Favorite? You need to read about them besides the sugarcoated school books
@@abhilasha5428 any historical figure would be a monster by today's standards, including Ghandi.
@@amehak1922 Not really, not everyone. Either way, I don't think these are atleast idol worthy, thats all i can see
You did a Wonderful work..
Thanks
"Tripped and fell down a stone staricase"
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Fun fact 🇲🇳, The Mughals were a Mongol and turkic empire. Search up, are mughals Mongol, and it will say
"The name Mughal or Moghul is a corruption of the Persian word for Mongol, the Central Asian tribe after whom Mongolia is named. The Mughals originated in Central Asia, and were descended from the Mongol ruler Jenghiz Khan and Timur (Tamburlaine), the great conqueror of Asia"
Yeah it's origin is turco mongol but certainly not Turkic or mongol empire
This empire was totally based in india ,followed indian culture and about 11 of the 17 mughal mothers were indian
@@Ankit-d9f4u It’s not origin ≠ Culture, society & language
Very well researched and beautiful made video.
Mongols and Turks mixed in that region and they related distantly. But some people just love to ignore Turks. But our emotions don't matter, we should look at the sources.
Just read Ali-Shir Nava-i's opinions on Turkish and read "Baburnama" (Written in Chagatai Turkish), in there you can even read Babur's words about how much he despises Mongols even though his mother is a Mongol.
The worst part is, in the video Epimetheus says "Iranian Safavids", that's a shame. They spoke Turkish which is less Persianized than Ottomans. Those guys are more Turk than Ottomans.
Just because they lived in Iran we call them Iranian. In that logic, we should call Ottomans as Romans.
Great video by the way, except the "Safavid" part : )
By your logic, mughals are persian then just because they spoke persian as their official language.
Safavid dynasty is an iranian dynasty of kurdish origin, so does the language matters to you that much?
Erdem Demirhan what do u mean by they speak turkish ? Word turkish were only used after ww1
Erdem Demirhan u must be turkified caucasian 😁😁
@@OwnTrick Kurdish dynasty that speaks Turkish and lives in Ardabil? Are you kurdish yourself or just stupid?
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Since you turks rely alot on wikipedia, why dont you search it up there and then tell me what the safavid dynasty's origin is.
babur acquired fireguns and officers from ottomans to counter turkic safevids. These guns outperformed indian guns and so he carpet conquered india
Great video. Please do more on Indian and other Asian empires.
It was Akbar who was one of the best rulers of his dynasty. The fall of the empire started after Jehangir. And also Shajehan was imprisoned by Aurangzeb and he died in imprisonment. The only good thing out of the Mughal dynasty was that each king used to work and earn from that particular opposition. Kingdoms fall because a prince has to wait for his father to die and succeed power.
Truly Akbar was a far-sighted man, his liberal policies with his multi cultural and religious subjects was way ahead of its time. No contemporary of his shows the same tact. Jehangir was wise enough not to meddle too much with his father's policies. It started going downhill with Shah Jahan and culminated with Aurangzeb.
Like that creepy music for the intro.
Would recommend the speaker to speak more clearly.......... Otherwise thank you so much for ur tireless efforts.😁
Marathans looked badass. I wanna know more about these cool thugs.
Please make history of Delhi sultanate also it have 5 dynasties such as Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid and Lodi dynasty
@Epimetheus Always great work. Would love to show this to my 7th grade World History class and give props and recommend your channel of course! We're currently transitioning from the Gupta Empire into the Mughals.
Transition period from Gupta Empire to Mughals was the time when the dignity of natives took a great hit.
You missed the Jatt rebellions all the way from checking Tamerlane to the mughals
😂😂😂😂 nice joke
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Keep laughing
@@letmethinkv why are you here go to some comedy videos duh
hahhhahahahhahh jatts will be jatt TAMERLANE WILL BE TAMERLANE FOR SURE
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Yes, and sad kucks which have no self respect bent the knee to arab bs
The “Spanish Ulcer” had ruined Napoleon Bonaparte I, it was the “Deccan Ulcer” that ruined Aurangzeb. - Jadunath Sarkar.
I would not say so. The Deccan conquests by Aurangzeb were maintained by Asaf Jah who held the territories until 1748 who remained loyal to the Mughal Empire. People tend to forget, the Marathas accepted Mughal Suzerainity after Aurangzebs death.
Aurangzeb was a fucking bigot pig 🐷
@gulag master Asaf Jah held the Deccan until 1748 and planted the Mughal Flag deep into Tamil Nadu. Do not forget that right after Aurangzebs death, Marathas accepted Mughal Suzerainity. It was only after 1720 that Marathas began conquering territory but even then Shahu never relinquished the Mughal Suzerainity and Nana Balaji called him self as the "agent of the Mughal Sultanate". The relations between Mughals and Marathas is complexed and its easily misunderstood by nationalists.
@gulag master The Marathas had to serve the Mughals for many reasons. Firstly, North Indians, Hindus and Muslims alike despised the Marathas as savages and invaders from the Deccan. Hence, Marathas required legitimacy, they had none, and they knew only through the person of "Shahenshah E Hind", they could gain some form of legitimacy as the Mughal was symbolically the most respected and legitimate Emperor of all of India, with Rajas and Princes all over India seeking recognition from the Mughal throne.
Second, the agents of the Mughal (Marathas), as they styled themselves were under oath of treaty to protect the Mughal Empire from internal and external threat. There is no shame in this as Baji Roa the second, also became a pensioner of the British, hence being protected by them.
@@AdityaSingh-ku3cv he was a based hero
Cool thing:Babur was always homesick and wanted to return his homeland
Mughal Empire was the last Great Mongol Empire who's ruling large portations untiled middle of'18th-centuries
Make a video about history of Uzbekistan please!!!
listen - very few have as much to say as you do - your videos are always informative and interesting , and visually intriguing , BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE THEM LONGER , OR SCALE DOWN THE SCOPE OF THE ISSUES , the amount of information given is dizzying and at the same time not enough - it's always too interesting to be rushed through - take your time ! your stories are our history !
Video is nice
Can you even mention the source of information also when you get it 😂🙏🏾✌🏾 please
Seeing those dangerously low and useless parapets on mughal buildings in Delhi, you're forced to imagine someone falling over and dying. You'd imagine they'd learn their lesson from humayun and build higher parapets, but they didn't,did they?