HIS
251 MUGHALS, CONTEMPORARIES, SUCCESSORS
I. Mughals
BABUR
ESTABLISHES DYNASTY
with MILITARY VICTORY IN 1526
AKBAR
MANSABDARI SYSTEM (JAGIRS)
CONSOLIDATES AND EXPANDS EMPIRE
Map of Mughal
Empire and Expansion
SHAHJAHAN
GREAT BUILDER: TAJ
MAHAL AMONG OTHERS
AURANGZEB
LAST OF THE "GREAT MUGHALS"
"SUCCESSOR STATES"
MARATHAS, BENGAL, AWADH,
HYDERABAD, MYSORE
DISINTEGRATION/REGIONALISM
PROFIT FROM TRADE WITH ENGLISH AND OTHER EICs
II. Portuguese: Mughal
Contemporaries
1499 VASCO DA GAMA
"DISCOVERS" SEA-ROUTE TO INDIA
~1500-1600 PORTUGUESE AND THEN OTHER
EUROPEANS SECURE CONTROL OVER INDIAN OCEAN
~1600-1700 PORTUGUESE LOSE OUT TO THE RISING
NORTHERN EUROPEAN POWERS IN STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF SEA ROUTES.
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III. Emergence of the English
East India Company as Major Power in South Asia
East India Company: First
"factory" 1619, SURAT
1757: Battle of PLASSEY, first defeat of an
Indian ruling power by a European Trading Company.
1765: Battle of BUXAR, acquire DIWANI or
right to collect TAX from people of Bengal.
By 1799 the EIC defeat the last challenges to
its power by defeating TIPU, the ruler of MYSORE.