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As a monarch Akbar possessed a natural charisma and was known as every inch a king. He was of middling stature, of wheatish complexion, rather inclining to dark than fair, black eyes and eye-brows, stout body, open forehead and chest, long…

The Mughals started using firearms and mines in siege warfare from the last decade of the sixteenth century

Babur ordered that at every 9th kuroh (about 29 kilometres) a tower was to be erected on the highway where 6 post-horses were to be kept fastened and arrangement was to be made for the payment of postmaster and grooms and for horse-corn

Muhammad bin Tughlaq was a bunch of paradoxes that proved hazardous for not only his own good as well as for the Delhi Sultanate

A striking feature of Alauddin Khilji’s administration (1296–1316) was his economic reform