The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moghul empire
Moghul empire \Mo*ghul" empire\, Mogul empire \Mo*gul" empire\, prop. a. [See Mogul, n..] The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars), established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The establsihed religion of the empire was Mohammedanism. After the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in 1857 by the deposing of the last emperor.
Usage examples of "moghul empire".
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.