Question
How did the Mughals succeed in ruling the subcontinent?

Answer

  • Quite in contrast to their predecessors, the Mughals created an empire and ruled over it for a long period of time.
  • From the later half of the sixteenth century they expanded their kingdom from
    Agra and Delhi up to the seventeenth century.
  • They controlled nearly all of the subcontinent.
  • They imposed structures of administration and ideas of governance.
  • They outlasted their rule, leaving a political legacy that succeeding rulers of the subcontinent could not ignore.

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