MUGHAL DYNASTY: FROM BABUR TO AURANGZEB

Abstract

The Mughal kingdom has an everlasting impact on the whole concept of the country. The advent of the sixteenth century marks the beginning of the three new forces in the country which changed the course of her future history. Although Akbar, very eagerly in his reign, was able to remove some of his principal adversaries, he cannot be said to have obtained any real hold over the country and the enemies of his house were neither weak nor few in number. Shah Jahan, however, saw the sequence differently, whether correctly or incorrectly. The town of Hugli, situated on the bank of the river had of late risen to importance owing to the Portuguese settlers, besides their usual vocation of commerce, also indulged in the slave trade and very frequently used to seize the orphan children of Hindus and Muhammadans and forcibly convert them to Christianity.