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A member of the Moslem dynasty that ruled India until 1857
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moghul
Word definitions for moghul in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mogul \Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.] A person of the Mongolian race. Specifically: Any of the Mongolian peoples who conquered parts of India and established an empire lasting from 1526 to 1857. Also, any of their descendents. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive ...
Usage examples of moghul.
Athens and Rome but also the Germany of Walther von derVogelweide, the Provence of Arnaut Daniel, the Florence of Dante and Guido Cavalcanti, to say nothing of Tang China and Moghul India and Almoravid Spain.
May 1857, that a telegram arrived at the fort informing the Resident and Brigadier General Sir James Cameron that Indian army sepoys had revolted in Meerut, killed their officers and British civilians in the town and were marching on Delhi to rally behind the Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, against the British.
It fell under the dominion of the Moghuls in 1221, and was taken, plundered, and nearly destroyed by Tamerlane in 1387.
In the mid-eighteenth century the Pathans, a Moslem people of Indo-Iranian stock, established a buffer between the Safavid Persian empire and the Moghul empire in India.
Rowser had taken me to that Moghul tomb to tell me in a roundabout way the same thing I'd just heard from Charles.
It was these Uzbeks in the early sixteenth century who deposed Babur, the great Turkic poet and the last of Tamerlane’s successors, who consequently fled Samarkand to found the Moghul dynasty in northwestern India.