Moghul empire


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Mo`ghul´ empire


prop. a.1.The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars), established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The establsihed religion of the empire was Mohammedanism. After the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in 1857 by the deposing of the last emperor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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