History Discussion Group - Love Living at Home event

About this Event

The History Discussion Group will examine the rise and fall of the Moghul Empire.

Throughout the course of its over two-hundred-year (1526-1857) existence, the Mughal Empire became one of the largest centralized states of its time. By the end of the seventeenth century, the empire’s territory extended throughout today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, with the emperor ruling over a population of 100-150 million.

Join us on Tuesday, September 10th at 4:30pm as we explore the empire’s military prowess, the expansion of trade routes throughout the Indian continent, and its contributions to art and architecture.

Resources for The Rise and Fall of The Moghul Empire

Video: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/single-malt-history-with-gareth-russell/id1565005422?i=1000634374696

Introductory and Background Reading

https://southasia.ucla.edu/history-politics/mughals-and-medieval/

https://www.britannica.com/place/India/The-composition-of-the-Mughal-nobility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire

https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/default/files/knowledge-bank-article/vol_V%20silk%20road_the%20mughal%20empire%20and%20its%20sucessors.pdf

Art and Architecture

https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/art-of-the-islamic-world/unit-five/chapter-four/introduction#:~:text=The%20Mughal%20emperors%20were%20among,28).

A Deeper Dive

https://youtu.be/TFdt_4VbQ_M?feature=shared First of an eight-part series. Dated, but still relevant.

Collier, Dirk. The Great Mughals and Their India. Delhi: Hay House, 2017.

Dalrymple, William. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Mukhoty, Ira. Daughters of the Sun: empresses, queens, and begums of the Moghul Empire. New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2018.

Mukhoty, Ira. Akbar, The Great Moghul. New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2020.

Schimmel, Annemarie. The Empire of the Great Moghuls: History, Art, and Culture. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.