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English: Mughal Empire under Akbar, 1605. Areas that were only partially integrated are indicated by lighter shading and dotted lines. Source: Schwartzberg, Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia (University of Minnesota, 1992), Plate VI.A (p.44–46) and XIV.4 (p.148)
English: Mughal Empire at its maximum extent under Aurangzeb, 1707. Source: Schwartzberg, Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia (University of Minnesota, 1992), Plate VI.A (p.44–46) and XIV.4 (p.148) See also: Truschke, Audrey. Aurangzeb (Stanford University Press, 2017), Chapter 1 map "Mughal Empire in 1707" Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay ...
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.
The decline of the Mughal Empire began with the death of Emperor Aurangzeb on 3 March 1707. The Mughals faced numerous invasions from the Maratha Confederacy and internal conflicts over succession. [5] The Mughals continued declining under Muhammad Shah, allowing adventurers such as Nader Shah to invade Mughal territories and sack Delhi. [6]
Aurangzeb made Arcot a Mughal subah in 1692. During the Mughal Empire, the Punjab region consisted of three subahs: Lahore, Multan, and parts of Delhi subah. [6] The Sikh Empire (1799–1849), originating in the Punjab region, also used the term Suba for the provinces it administered under its territorial delineation, of which there were five. [7]
Under Mughal rule, Multan enjoyed 200 years of peace in a time when the city became known as Dar al-Aman ("Abode of Peace"). During the Mughal era, Multan was an important centre of agricultural production and manufacturing of cotton textiles. [4] Multan was a centre for currency minting, [4] as well as tile-making during the Mughal era. [5]