NCERT Book Class 7 Social Science (History) Chapter 4 The Mughals 16th to 17th Century

4 the mughals
(16th TO 17th CENTURY)

R uling as large a territory as the Indian subcontinent
with such a diversity of people and cultures was an
extremely difficult task for any ruler to accomplish in
the Middle Ages. Quite in contrast to their predecessors,
the Mughals created an empire and accomplished what
had hitherto seemed possible for only short periods
of time. From the latter half of the sixteenth century,
they expanded their kingdom from Agra and Delhi,
until in the seventeenth century they controlled nearly
all of the subcontinent. They imposed structures of
administration and ideas of governance that outlasted
their rule, leaving a political legacy that succeeding
rulers of the subcontinent could not ignore. Today
the Prime Minister of India addresses the nation on
Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort
in Delhi, the residence of the Mughal emperors.
Fig. 1
The Red Fort.

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