Ziauddin Tucy is the sixth generation descendant of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and today struggles to make ends meet. Living in a rented house, he still believes that the government will release properties of the erstwhile Mughals to the legal heirs. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424410/The-Mughal-emperor-ancestor-Sultana-Begum-forced-live-slum-washes-street-struggles-feed-children.html Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p.43. ISBN 978-1-59884-337-8.

After Aurangzeb, the Mughal capital definitively became the walled city of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi). [96] Law Police in Delhi under Bahadur Shah II, 1842 Nehemia Levtzion (1979). Conversion to Islam. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 978-0-8419-0343-2. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023 . Retrieved 19 March 2023. a b József Böröcz (2009). The European Union and Global Social Change. Routledge. p.21. ISBN 978-1-135-25580-0 . Retrieved 26 June 2017. The construction of Maktab schools, where youth were taught the Quran and Islamic law such as the Fatawa 'Alamgiri in their indigenous languages. a b Asher, Catherine B.; Talbot, Cynthia (2006). India before Europe. Cambridge University Press. p.267. ISBN 0-521-80904-5. OCLC 61303480.The Muslim Governer of Hydrabad in southern India rebelled and established a separate Shi'a state; he also reintroduced religious toleration. Richard M. Eaton (2013). Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History Essays in Honour of John F. Richards. Cambridge University Press. p.21. I consider all this army (Marathas) as my own and I will get my work done through them. It is necessary to take our hands off Malwa. God willing, I will enter into an understanding with them and entrust the Mulukgiri(raiding) on that side of the Narmada to them. Smith, Vincent Arthur (1917). Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542–1605. Oxford at The Clarendon Press. pp.13–14.

The development of Mughlai cuisine, an amalgamation of South Asian, Iranian and Central Asian culinary styles. Today he lives at the mercy of the villagers who bring him rice and lentils for lunch, in a mud hut of dilapidated condition, covered in cobwebs.The Mughals were responsible for building an extensive road system, creating a uniform currency, and the unification of the country. [10] :185–204 The empire had an extensive road network, which was vital to the economic infrastructure, built by a public works department set up by the Mughals which designed, constructed and maintained roads linking towns and cities across the empire, making trade easier to conduct. [103] There are currently efforts underway in India, as stated above, to trace the lost Imperial family by private NGOs. The organizations claim that they have successfully found out 70 lost descandants of Mughals in Calcutta, Bengal state and 200 other descendants in city of Aurangabad alone. The Mughal Empire is conventionally said to have been founded in 1526 by Babur, a chieftain from what is today Uzbekistan, who employed aid from the neighboring Safavid and Ottoman Empires, [13] to defeat the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodi, in the First Battle of Panipat, and to sweep down the plains of North India. The Mughal imperial structure, however, is sometimes dated to 1600, to the rule of Babur's grandson, Akbar. [14] This imperial structure lasted until 1720, until shortly after the death of the last major emperor, Aurangzeb, [15] [16] during whose reign the empire also achieved its maximum geographical extent. Reduced subsequently to the region in and around Old Delhi by 1760, the empire was formally dissolved by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The development of Mughal clothing, jewelry and fashion, utilizing richly decorated fabrics such as muslin, silk, brocade and velvet. By 1750 Travancore had become rich and big. So the then king, made a unique spiritual and historical contribution. He decided to surrender all his riches to the temple – Padmanabhaswamy who is also their family deity.

Zafar had 16 sons and 31 daughters. Though fate of his sons is known but those of his daughters is largely unknown. a b Bose, Sugata; Jalal, Ayesha (2004). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (2nded.). Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-203-71253-5.The closest to an official name for the empire was Hindustan, which was documented in the Ain-i-Akbari. [32] Mughal administrative records also refer to the empire as "Land of Hindustan" ( Persian: بِلادِ هِندوستان, romanized: Bilād-i-Hindustān), "Dominions of Hindustan" ( Persian: وِلايَتِ هِندوستان, romanized: Wilāyat-i-Hindustān), [33] or "Sultanate of Al-Hind" ( Arabic: سلطنة الهندية, Saltanat(i) Al-Hindiyyah) as observed in the epithet of emperor Aurangzeb. [34] The contemporary Qing chronicles referred to the Mughal emperors as the "Lords of Hindustan" ( Mandarin: Undustan i noyan). [35] In the west, the term " Mughal" was used for the emperor, and by extension, the empire as a whole. [36] Mughal India had a large shipbuilding industry, which was also largely centred in the Bengal province. Economic historian Indrajit Ray estimates shipbuilding output of Bengal during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at 223,250tons annually, compared with 23,061tons produced in nineteen colonies in North America from 1769 to 1771. [138] He also assesses ship repairing as very advanced in Bengal. [138]