World History: The Mughals

Today we are looking at the last of the so-called ‘Gunpowder Empires’: the Mughals. The Mughals are perhaps one of the most influential of India’s empires with many aspects and images of India which the West has originating from the Mughal Empire. Since the 1990s India’s Hindu right has been on the rise, currently the

World History: The Ottoman Empire

The famous sultan Suleiman For the next three World History posts we’ll be looking at what Marshall Hodgson and William McNeill described as the ‘Gunpowder Empires’: the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires. These three empires utilized gunpowder, dominated their respective regions and were Islamic. They were the some of the most powerful states during their