Mughal Empire Family Tree

Mughal empire family tree, who ruled India. The Mughal period can be called second classical age of northern India.

Babur Family Tree

• Babar, founder of the Mughal dynasty, was the king of Kabul.
• He was invited to India to fight against Ibrahim Lodhi.
• He confronted and defeated Lodi in 1526 at the first battle of Panipat.
• Before his death, he had made himself the master of the Punjab, Delhi and the Gangetic plains as far as Bihar.
• He wrote Tuzuk-i-Babari, his autobiography in the Turkish. It contained a lively description of India.

Humayun (1530 A.D.-1556 A.D.)

Humayun Family Tree

• He inherited a vast unconsolidated empire and an empty treasury.
• He had to deal with the growing power of the Afghan Sher Shah from the east, who had Bihar and Bengal under him.
• Sher Shah defeated Humayun in Kannauj (1540 A.D.) and Humayun passed the next 12 years in exile.
• In 1555, after Sher Shah’s death, Humayun regained the throne from his weak successor.
• Akbar, his son, succeeded him in 1556 A.D. and consolidated the empire.

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