Mughal
Americannoun
noun
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“Without laborers,” she writes, “who were often illiterate and almost never speak for themselves in historical texts—there would have been no Mughal Empire.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
A recent revision of history textbooks has pruned chapters on the Mughal era, the Muslim dynasty that came from central Asia and ruled swaths of northern India for centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
The survey was ordered hours after a petition claimed that the mosque was built after Mughal ruler Babur destroyed the Hari Har temple in the 1520s.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
Mohammad Khan Mughal, 32, was born in Karachi and has three children.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024
The couples in the Mughal miniatures had modestly covered themselves in shadow.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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