Rise of the Mughal Empire and the Reign of Akbar the Great DOCUMENTARY

In this history documentary we trace the Rise of the Mughal Empire and the Reign of Akbar the Great! Akbar the Great was the 16th century Mughal ruler of India who led his Empire to never before seen heights. In a land of countless cultures and religions, his reign is almost universally revered today not just for its impressive military conquests but also its incredible administrative reforms that ushered in a new age of progressive multiculturalism which united India for the first time in over a millennia.
We begin the documentary by looking at the medieval history of India. This includes a prolonged period of internal struggle with frequent outside invasions from groups like the Islamic Empire and the Mongols. We discuss how muslim conqueror's first established the Delhi Sultanate which was later overthrown by the invading Timurid army of Babur following the climactic battle of Panipat. This victory established the new Mughal empire. It would have a difficult time finding stability with much opposition coming from both within and without the realm.
Eventually, Akbar was born in 1542 and crowned Emperor at the age of 14. His reign would usher in massive territorial expansions and reforms that united India for the first time in centuries and launched a new golden age!
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[@InvictaHistory]

I wanted to thank our Patrons for suggesting this topic! You can support us and make your own suggestions here or on our page: www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory. (P.S. Get ready for more War Elephants in our upcoming video on ancient Carthage)

[@firesword2945]

Could you do a video on South India which is often neglected even in Indian context.. preferably 'The Chola dynasty'.. :)

[@rajrouj]

Invicta that was great (as usual)! Thank you. Can you tell us the name of the music (starting mid video) please?

[@af8828]

Loved the video guys. I was wondering where you get your research from and how you conduct it. I'm almost done my summer semester at university so I'll have two months of nothing to do soon. I would like to spend this time getting at least a surface level understanding of 16th century geopolitics in the Indian subcontinent, but I'm unsure which resources are best for doing so. Your content has sparked a newfound interest in history I could have never guessed I would have as a STEM student. Keep up the great work.

[@hadtrio6629]

shame he had to turn infidel and start a new religion also can you please do a series about north African history in detail specially the pre roman era & the roman era

[@sunilrawat2052]

Make a video on AHOM KINGDOM who successfully defeated the MUGHALS 17 times

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

EU4 players when you read out all the Indian Kingdoms: "Hey I've seen this one!"

[@Brahmdagh]

Bengal, Orrisa, Godwana, Gujarat etc are basically organic nations of the south asian region. Region which is almost the same size and More diverse than Europe. And unlike Europe, has got its own tectonic plate.

[@manooxi327]

guilty

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

@@Brahmdagh I never said they weren't, the joke is that India was recently updated with a DLC so it brought more players attention to India so EU4 players are already familair with Delhi, Bengal, Orissa, Bahamanis, Vijiyanagar, Sind, Gujarat etc

[@tiagojoao1827]

My first iron man campaign was forming the Mughals as Timurids, so most of the countries mentioned in the video are very familiar to me

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

I love that dharma music in eu4😍

[@NeroIML]

I know it's the convention of naming this man, but I find it funny that "Akbar the Great" basically means "Greatest the Great". It's a bit like calling the indian style tea "Chai tea", meaning "tea tea".

[@InvictaHistory]

Yeah and it probably only gets worse when you tack on all his other honorific titles too

[@skkk352]

In our northeast indian dialect ,it is a pun ... for eg. nung back o.. nung means back.. so,back back o..

[@arkadeepkundu4729]

Akbar was actually the Title "The Great". His actual name was Jalaluddin Mohammad. He became known as Akbar because he was referred in historical texts as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar i.e. Jalaluddin Mohammad the Great. "Akbar the Great" was basically a British mistranslation, pretty much exactly like Chai tea.

[@CirosKhan]

Isn't chai Chinese?

[@monslenomer]

@@CirosKhan I believe, in Latin letters, "cha" is tea in Chinese (and Japanese). Chai is indeed tea in some Indian languages (if not all) using Latin alphabet.

[@dhritishmanm3144]

Few mistakes: 1. Humayun did not die from illness. Instead he felt from his library stairs and died. 2. Jalal-ud-in Akbar died at the age of 63. 3. The Ahoms didn't rule the entire Brahmaputra valley during Akbar reign. They reach that extend after defeating the Mughals between 1662-1682. Before 1605, the Western part was ruled by Koch kingdom while east was ruled by Ahoms . If you are planing to cover the Mughal-Maratha wars then also try to cover the Mughal-Ahom conflict.

[@JokerJoker-xc7xb]

actually Jalaludin Akbar was Planning to Assasinate the Maan Singh by Mixing the poison in his Food as Because of the Frustation to loose in the Battle of Haldigarh and Blaming Raja Maan singh as he Fought for the Akbar's Side against Rajput Kingdom. I dont know what Happen but the Plate of Maan singh Suddenly Get exchanged with the Akbar's Plate and Akbar Eat at that Poison food which he Mixed on Raja Maan Singh's Plate.. and thats how so called "AKBAR THE GREAT" Cheaply Died.

[@2ad4ddd]

@@JokerJoker-xc7xb Pratap lost in the battle of Haldighati. Stop living in your world of fantasy history

[@2ad4ddd]

While expelled and prevented from expanding into Assam, the Mughal war in the Ahom, negotiations with local landlords and other diplomatic measures crippled the Ahom to an eventual doom soon to come

[@dhritishmanm3144]

@@2ad4ddd bot sure from where you consumed your history....but the Ahoms managed to stick around for another 150 years. The Ahoms central power outlasted the Mughal Emperor authority who were puppets at the hands of the Nawabs and the Marathas during the 18th century. Both the state died around the same time at the hand of the British EIC.

[@rohitrai6187]

5:26 Sikhs weren't a distinct community yet 6:11 Sher Shah was Afghan not Mughal

[@ASHMAN20082008]

@John Doe mughals are tajiks and they live in two countries Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

[@eren9001]

Mughal is not ethnicity. Most mughals were turks and some mughals were Afgan

[@Dakka1968]

Babur actually arrested Guru Nanak and sikh persecution was around at that time.

[@anmolsinghbath9434]

Actually Guru Nanak would've already had his revelation at age 33 by 1502 & at that point the second Sultan of the Lodi dynasty Sikandar Lodi was still in power. He would go on to call his followers Sikhs meaning disciple in Sanskrit although many of his followers still retained somewhat of their Islamic or Hindu traditions depending on which faith they adhered to earlier. And at some points Sikhi under Babur would actually face minor persecution (not on a ridiculously tremendous scale though). So saying the Sikhs weren't a distinct community yet is technically true as Sikhi was only at its beginnings but by Invicta acknowledging that, it helps viewers understand that by that point Sikhi indeed did exist. Also it would've been nice to mention another one of Akbar's great feats for inclusion - Akbar once would actually attend the Langar of the 3rd Nanak Guru Amar Das Ji and Guru Sahib would teach him the way of equality as during the langar (vegetarian kitchen started by Guru Nanak) Akbar would sit on the ground alongside peasants, shoemakers, blacksmiths even homeless people & wouldn't receive special treatment because of him being an emperor. Guru Ji had told Akbar's diplomats that prior to meeting him he should attend a Sikh langar on his own accord to show if he really did want to meet Guru Ji. It's said after his experience in the Langar he would feel enlightened & he'd go on to donate a large plot of land to Guru Amar Das Ji for him to build a palace there. However, Guru Ji did not accept the land donation as he did not want to attain property & appear to others as using his position as the Guru of Sikhi to gain political/social favour from the emperor. So to go around it, Akbar had returned to the Guru Ji & instead presented the land donation acting as a brotherly gift for Guru Ji's eldest daughter Bibi Bhani Ji, whom he since saw as a sister. Guru Ji, seeing that the gift wasn't meant for him & saw it as a wholesome gesture accepting the offering.

[@squamish4244]

@@eren9001 After a few generations of intermarriage in India they were Indians.

[@s.v.848]

Funny, when I forgive my enemies in CK2 they also die from some mysterious assasination shortly thereafter like Bairam Khan.

[@saqlainalvi5485]

U mean like bairam khan

[@s.v.848]

@@saqlainalvi5485 you are right, my bad

[@aleempervaiz8789]

@@saqlainalvi5485 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4izoIR6hLl0jqs

[@arthas640]

I loved playing as byzantines. I blinded alot of people that pissed me off and with all the money you've got you can bribe ALOT of people into plots.

[@xhuljanomuca4342]

Last time I was so early, Timur was still around!

[@eazya1523]

Lol

[@kamleshmanjhi1234]

Timur is just a name

[@ayushchaturvedi3755]

@@kamleshmanjhi1234 he meant taimur,, kareena's son

[@rifkifanani3694]

timur is also mean 'east' here

[@bobsaggat]

Ackbar the great. Are you sure he wasn't an admiral?

[@Umarzer0.]

that comment is a trap!!!

[@arunavmehta1097]

Akbar means "great"

[@sarysa]

@@arunavmehta1097 Yep, Great the Great LOL

[@mitchf7558]

Joe Bloe I’ve been looking forward to this

[@amitmeena1596]

He will become an admiral once we go to space

[@mattyman444]

6:10 Humayun first made a push to drive back the forces of Barad-dûr. Unexpected LOTR.

[@mohammedhasan8388]

His name was Bahadur

[@jesseberg3271]

Tolkien was a linguist, and extremely well read. He probably came across the name and thought to him self, "That sounds dark, let me make a note of that."

[@sakshampandey7342]

Bahadur actually means courageous or valiant.

[@ateyo7554]

Rohila , was the Indian word for the Afghan tribesmen in mountainous regions to the West too.

[@aleempervaiz8789]

@@mohammedhasan8388 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4izoIR6hLl0jqs

[@v44n7]

A invicta vídeo? This is going to be a good day

[@MasonBryant]

*An Invicta

[@180_reetambharadwaj4]

Many fallacies in the video this was not one of the good videos

[@durvsh]

Minor nitpicking. 'Akbar' means great. Jalal-ud-din was given the title of Akbar. I guess that somehow got morphed in the English translations to Akbar the Great instead of Jalal-ud-din the Great.

[@Bubba___]

Kinda like genghis khan?

[@zackflora6165]

Or Charles the great the great. charlemagne the great

[@ME-hm7zm]

Is it nitpicking if he got the name of the person this is focused on completely wrong?

[@durvsh]

@@ME-hm7zm Nitpicking for this video as they might have learned it from the material they researched. Major fault of the English translators and historians to be lazy.

[@purplehaze2905]

Great the great

[@sakshampandey7342]

Jalal-ud-din was his real name. It meant "Glory of the Faith" Jalal = Glory Ud = Of Din = Faith Akbar, which means Great was simply his title. Hence Jalal-ud-din, the Great.

[@ImKevin]

Wow, that was a great tidbit of information, didn't know that.

[@sakshampandey7342]

@@ImKevin you learn these things if you're Indian and have some spare time.

[@DrStrange234]

@@sakshampandey7342 Jalal uddin Akbar the Great 💪

[@Jumpoable]

Is Alladin "Allah/ God" + "din/ faith" then?

[@randomname5585]

@@Jumpoable Jalala is basically "Majesty" or "Grace" in Arabic, Din is the faith, the "of" in the "Majesty OF the faith" is an implied pronoun which is not written but is always implied. i know it might sound crazy what im saying but that is how grammer or "E'rab" is done in Arabic.

[@anushghosh4606]

Small correction: Sher Shah Suri wasn't a "former Mughal ruler", he was of humble origins, an ethnic Pathan (Pashtun) whose family had settled in what is present-day Bihar (which was under the control of the Bengal Sultanate at the time). By dint of merit, he soon emerged as a ruler of Bihar up until the border with Bengal at the confluence of the Gandak and Ganges. He initially had accepted Babar's supremacy but with his death, he became a thorn at the side of Humayun.

[@InvictaHistory]

Thanks for the correction!

[@anushghosh4606]

@@InvictaHistory you're welcome!

[@BothHands1]

extremely concise, well written, and properly spelled comment. if not for your name, i'd assume you were an english native speaking scholar. if english was not your first language, then i commend you thoroughly on your fluency, as it's better than at least 80% of native english speakers. even the difference between "whose" and "who's" was correct, something the majority of english speakers don't know

[@DrStrange234]

A little more correction Sher Shah Suri wasn't of humble origin , His father was the Lord of Bihar province aka Nawab , he inherited his father province . He killed a Tiger barehanded, hence for his bravery he was named Sher Shah killer of Tiger . He was a Great Aristocrat,a Noble and a brilliant admistrator. He is one who thought of Mansabdari system and Zamindari system and build Grand trunk road. Even Akbar the Great implemented his vision later on . Problem was he was a Ethnic Afghan and were in a dispute with Mughals who emerged as new power , he even managed to defeat Mughals once Humanyun barely escaped helped by a River boatman .He belonged to Great Suri Dynasty.

[@jonathanananda2630]

@@BothHands1 India is extremely linguistically diverse, so a very large portion of the population is bilingual, and a substantial section is trilingual. Hindi is the most commonly used link language, but many South Indians are not very fluent in it. This leaves English as a crucial link language for us and it is reflected in our Constitution--English and Hindi are both recognized as official languages of the Union of India. In addition, there are another 22 regional languages given scheduled status by the Constitution and different state governments may have different official state languages. The official business of the Union of India, however, can only be conducted in Hindi or English. TL;DR Don't be surprised by the fluency with which many Indians speak English. More than 125 million of us can speak it and it is one of two official languages of the Union Government.

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

Humayun distributed his resources in his empire to his insupportive brothers and wasted a lot of time in entertainment of dances and songs at battle fields rather than planning and facing Shershah.Akbar was rather a serious campaigner, tolerant and thoughtful ruler.Akbar married to rajputs and other females from other kingdoms of India, never denying a marriage, even marrying at age of 51 this policy formed his political position stronger.He innovated mughal cannons.Overall he knew how to use his resources.

[@iwanttodie7199]

Ffs he died at 49 🤦🤦

[@kamleshmanjhi1234]

Humayun was not as bad as shown by people, babur himself divided the kingdom before death and it was hard for humayun to conquer on three fronts at same time. No one can still imagine how he came back from nowhere

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

@@kamleshmanjhi1234 Humanyun was granted army by Shah Tamsup of Iran approx 14000 soldiers because Shah wanted control of Kandahar, Humanyun had reconquest casus belli, in lieu of Kandahar Shah Granted Humayun a part of his army.

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

@Garviel Loken thanks for correcting me actually Akbar married last in 1593 around age of 51 Years :-)

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

@@iwanttodie7199 Akbar died in 1605 at age of 63

[@SanguiniusEntar]

Oh hell yes, the Mughal Empire is really interesting, so glad we've got a video on it. :D

[@navinkumarpk86]

Akbar was born in 1542 and died in 1605. He died at the age of 63, not 49!

[@InvictaHistory]

You are absolutely right, checked the script and my notes there had the math wrong. Thanks for catching it.

[@navinkumarpk86]

@@InvictaHistory Welcome! More videos on India please :)

[@A_Shanto]

@@navinkumarpk86 sikh empire is overated empire its have only small territory ruling india only few years

[@navinkumarpk86]

@@A_Shanto They kicked Mughal, Afghan and British back till internal problems took them down.

[@A_Shanto]

@@navinkumarpk86 they don’t kicked mughal mughal already died after death of aurangzeb

[@connorlightfoot4290]

Thanks for a generally uncovered topic

[@Blalack77]

1:02 - Damn... I've always been interested in maps and geography, but I never noticed India, Bangladesh and Myanmar together look like a Silverback Gorilla and the Himalayas with its snow-capped mountains look like the silver down its back.

[@manooxi327]

can't unsee it now

[@kingtalha087]

@@manooxi327 Yh lol

[@saqlainalvi5485]

We are history nerds here with weak hearts, try not to spook us.

[@aleempervaiz8789]

@@kingtalha087 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4izoIR6hLl0jqs

[@alialahmad4329]

The classic habbit if forgiving ur enemy to be seen great but assassinating them in secret to send a message

[@davyroger3773]

too bad Ceasar skipped out on the latter part

[@michael3920]

wow, fantastic work. the amount of work that goes into this really shows. down to maps of Panipat to the period-accurate artwork. thank you :)

[@red_nikolai]

I've been watching tons of history videos on KZbin for years, and this is the first good video I've ever seen about Indian history. THANK YOU! It's been a really notable gap that I've wanted videos to fill.

[@knightforlorn6731]

thank you so much. your programs are amazing.

[@Shekhar21402]

Was waiting for this for a long time. Thx mate

[@sarwankabir2425]

Thank you so much I was waiting for this very much

[@Dhairya_Mistry]

tHANKS TO YOUR VIDEOS I PASSED USCE, I AM SO GRATE FULL TO YOU AND OWE YOU MY LIFE

[@kuttyvlogers9295]

thanks, this was a very helpful or me and for my exams

[@alymerchant7265]

Nice video, Subscribed!!

[@davidec.4021]

Ah you’re back. Was getting worried lol

[@thedoruk6324]

The Mughals've Come after the Delhi Sultanate One Turco-Mongol dynastate after the other, the Indians be like; Aaw sht Here we again than again and again!

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

Also invasions from Mongol empire too..

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Türkler Hindistan’ı epey uzun süre yönetti

[@lakhshyalakey8078]

Delhi Sultanate weren't Turko-Mongol, they were just Turkic. Mughals were Persianised Turcko-Mongols

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Lakhshya Lakey yes👍👍👍

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Lakhshya Lakey only lodi is not turk others are turks

[@ZARUSI]

Hi bro! this really helped me a lot in my history exam preparation!

[@jonrolfson1686]

History oriented cinephiles might want to take a look at Jodhaa-Akbar (2008, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan) and/or Mughal-E-Azam (1960, Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar). These films are, of course, dramas set in historical times and not historically canonical documentaries - they are well worth the investment of a few hours.

[@ishaanjetly8084]

These videos are so fun to watch, very informative without any bias please make more videos on kingdoms and empires of India. A video of Ahoms will be fun to watch and so little info on Mighty Ahoms

[@richardcharay7788]

Loved it, thanks!

[@cleothehermetichermeticist8391]

On the same day me and a friend start a roleplay group set in 1700 and I needed to know more about my faction, the Mughals, you release this? Convenient.

[@krishivgarg915]

Nice vid bro

[@radekchybik7963]

Thank you sir. You are breathtaking!

[@Schmidty1]

*Casually* mentions that Akbar became *governor of a province at 14 years old and MARRIED HIS 9 YEAR OLD COUSIN.*

[@jesseberg3271]

These are the risks of hereditary rule, and good arguments against it.

[@BothHands1]

yeah, it's pretty fucked to be mentioned so easily.. and in places like bangladesh, this is still unfortunately common practice. often with 20 or 30 year gaps in age. it's quite horrific.

[@ME-hm7zm]

I'm liable to think he didn't have a real choice in the matter.

[@Schmidty1]

@@ME-hm7zm Obviously

[@MasterGhostf]

Marrying children wasn't uncommon for royatly. Didn't mean they had consummated it though. It was seen at least in Europe as something NOT to do. It would usually only happening when the princess became capable of raising children. They just married young sometimes to establish alliances.

[@history.mp4993]

Wow you’re really on your way to the big 1 mil our boy all grown up 😭💯💯🙏

[@akhtaruzzamanjoy8524]

thank you so much Invicta! Mughal history is my favorite topic. thank you so much for making a video on Indian subcontinent.

[@HaseebKhan-nj8bf]

Good work hope u cover the subcontinent a bit more, u have many viewers from subcontinent who wud b intrested,some of them I'm sure will support u on patreon as well

[@arakhand1974]

Akbar didn't conquer East Bengal ( Modern Day Bangladesh), actually. He lost several times to the ' Baro Bhuiyans ', who were local independent Lords. Later Jahangir finally got East Bengal and that is why modern day Dhaka was named Jahangirnagar.

[@arakhand1974]

Also interesting fact: "Bengal was a major trading nation in the world and was often referred to by Europeans as the richest country to trade with. The Khorasanis referred to the land as an "inferno full of gifts", due to its unbearable climate but abundance of wealth. Bengal Subah, described as the Paradise of the Nations, was the Mughal empire's wealthiest province, and became a major global exporter, a center of worldwide industries such as cotton textiles, silk,and shipbuilding. Its economy was worth 12% of the world's GDP, a value bigger than the entirety of Western Europe, and its citizens' living standards were among the world's highest. " Source : Wikipedia

[@2ad4ddd]

That's not true. The Baro Bhuiyans under Isa Khan put up heavy resistance but there's not a single battle or instance where Akbar 'lost' to them. Thr subah and modern Bangladesh remained under technical Mughal Suzerainty even under Akbar. Under Jahangir the rebellion was quelled altogether

[@mts-sultan6209]

@@2ad4ddd Isa Khan led coalition pushed back the Mughals several times. He even defeated Man Singh. Bengal fell in 1612.

[@salfordshan3545]

as a native urdu speaker I have to admit the narrator nailed the pronunciations Edit: fun fact= humayun died by falling down the stairs.

[@terrynewsome6698]

Can you do a video on the infantry of this time, I am always curious about how they were equipped?

[@renato7374]

I would like to see a video about the Maratha Empire.

[@Cruxispal]

I recognized the random city generator almost instantly from my time prepping for d&d!

[@InvictaHistory]

: )

[@Dr.PriyankasKitchen]

Nice video...... 👌👍👏

[@mehdimehdi9542]

Pls make a video about the formation and tactics and the army build up that we can use in rome 2

[@kingoftheworld22]

my ancestors were true conquerers ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@Seppi1310]

6:09 I'd also try to push back the forces of Barad-dur first. Gondor already had great struggle in that matter...

[@saqlainalvi5485]

😂😂😂underrated as hell

[@aleempervaiz8789]

@@saqlainalvi5485 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4izoIR6hLl0jqs

[@shurikenstriker2536]

The best explanation, hands off to u

[@whakabuti]

Glad to see the history of the subcontinent! You should really check out the Portuguese colonization of Ceylon (Lanka)! It’s replete with exciting court intrigue, politics and battles.

[@prashr4075]

Also Looting

[@abhyudayasinhchauhan6499]

amazingly informative video🧡💚💙 Thanks for covering great mughals ...

[@defendersofindia5486]

"Great"?

[@crzahmed9707]

​@@defendersofindia5486*Greatest

[@Richard_is_cool]

More videos on Indian history, please!! :)

[@normalbird1139]

I see that coffin dance reference at the end there Invicta.

[@someguy6369]

This'll be interesting.

[@dhaval1122]

Very impressed by research on a topic, that you weren't an expert of, before creating this video!

[@tejdandekar]

Awesome! We'd love it if you did the decline and fall as well.

[@sakshampandey7342]

Shah-en-shah Akbar's reforms can also be accredited in large measure to his able and competent ministers. The Land Revenue and Taxation reforms introduced during his reign can largely be attributed to Raja Todar Mal, A Hindu King who was among Akbar's 9 Gems, a collection of renowned and skilled personalities of that age who served The Shah-en-shah-E-Hind in his Court. His greatest political enemy would be the Rajput Kingdom of Mewar and the Deccan Sulatnates. The King of Mewar, Maharana Pratap, fought against the Mughals throughout his lifetime, losing and then regaining his kingdom. This struggle would continue during the reign of his son, Maharana Amar Singh, who signed a favourable treaty with the Mughals, under which he kept his land, accepted Mughal suzerainty but never had to bend his knee in person in the Mughal Court. Akbar was perhaps the last Great Mughal, as his all pervasive reforms extended from military to social measures. His successors had impressive episodes of glory and conquest, but ultimately ruined and tarnished the Mughal legacy of tolerance and strength. His last competent successor, ended up being a failure as a diplomat and a politician, failed to save the Empire from an economic and political crisis, and left behind the Mepire in ruins with a legacy of bigotry and hatred for Non-Muslims.

[@shubhambeniwal7146]

Yeah Aurangzeb's agenda backfired in form of revolts.

[@sakshampandey7342]

@@shubhambeniwal7146 yup. Revolts and religious uprisings, which political dissidents and enemies later on used to boost their manpower and recruit trained upper caste mercenaries from regions such as Awadh and Bhojpur who had served in Mughal Armies since the 16th century. For example, the Scindias and other Maratha Generals recruited Purbiya Brahmins in their reformed armies as Infantry organised, trained and equipped along European lines, with the help of European Experts and Militrya men such as General Benoit de Boigne.

[@pisslamicrapepublicofporki3947]

@@shubhambeniwal7146 and that was last mistake aurangzzeb did. he was kicked out of deccan by Marathas. They evn cross Narmada river which was a boundary for north and deccan.

[@sakshampandey7342]

@shahwaiz niazi I said the last competent Mughal ruler, which was admittedly, Aurangzeb.

[@sakshampandey7342]

@F U B Aurangzeb was a competent military commander but only when it came to regular warfare and pitched battles. He could not suppress or control the Marathas who dragged his empire in a 27 year war, which was left unfinished after his death. He lost hundreds of thousands of men and millions of rupees and in the end he failed to suppress the Marathas, who eventually formed their own independent kingdom under Chatrapathi Shivaji. Later on the Peshwas made the Mughals their protectorate. He also failed miserably as a diplomat and administrator. He failed to resolve the Mansabdari Crisis, which had started during his grandfather's reign and had exacerbated during his reign. Not to mention his inability to resolve the issue of succession in the Rajput Kingdoms of Marwar and Mewar. This led to a Rajput rebellion and disillusionment and distrust among North Indian Hindu Kings and subjects. His orthodox character and policies led to countrywide public discontent. Plus, he forever ruined and tarnished the image of a tolerant and secular Mughal state established by Akbar himself. So, he was actually nowhere close to what Emperor Akbar was.

[@sauravdasgupta1928]

After finishing the documentary on the Mughal empire please make a documentary on Maratha empire

[@ateyo7554]

Ibrahim Lodhi, Sher Shah Suri and the defending Delhi Sultanate were all remnants of Afghan tribesmen who made their dynasties in India.

[@DrStrange234]

They fortune was turned when Mughals showed up . It's like Tiger and Lions feud Only one dynasty to rule them all. Sher Shah suri was great Ruler .

[@ateyo7554]

Aurangzeb Alamgir عالمگير‎ Conqueror of the World , interestingly, when the Mughals showed their family ancestry to the Afghan nobles in their court, the Afghans did not record their own origins. Thats when Makhzan e Afghani was written, with the legendary myths of the founder of Afghanistan. All of it was based on myths and legends. It took another 300+ years before the Afghans learned about their own glorious history with the story of the Kushans, the Hephtalites, Scythian, and other Iranic empires. Many Afghans still believe the myths of the Jews and Alexander the Great. Genetic research shows they are majority Indo-Iranians.

[@Astorath_the_Grim]

British Empire: I'm gonna end this man's whole career.

[@MohammedAli-hl4mr]

to be fair though the mughal empire was rich and prosperous until decadence, extravagance in the royal court, harem politics, decentralization and religious intolerance unraveled it, it even held near parity with Europeans in terms of land based military technology had it not declined it probably would have had a reasonable shot at surviving to the 21st century or at least the 20th in some shape/form at least if it liberalized and democratized enough to stop discontent.

[@heathenfire]

The British didn't defeat the Mughals, the Marathas did. Shivaji, the Maratha king is considered a great hero in india

[@suhassreehari876]

Mughal empire was already dead before British came lol they just removed the leftovers

[@MrHeadcave]

​@@heathenfire Nader Shah sacked Delhi, the Marathas only attacked after that and sacked delhi again

[@A_Shanto]

@@heathenfire its not only maratha mughal destroyed by civil war jat Rajputs Sikh nawab revolt weak empire maratha just take credit exost mughal empire

[@Brahmdagh]

Pro tip for using elephants in your next battle: Use them not to kill the enemy, but the enemy's will to fight. As elephants are smarter than horses. They don't mind consuming tones of rations per day, but they don't care about human squabbles. And as soon as they see a fight they can't win. They go "screw you guys I'm going home", and trample the troops they know are least like to hurt them. Namely, your own troops.

[@heathenfire]

There's a podcast called yuddha where they talk about various aspects of ancient Indian military history. There's an episode on elephants. Check that out if you're interested

[@prashr4075]

Bro ur observation is epic. Kudos to the general inside u. I m laughing heck out here.

[@keithplymale2374]

The Mughal Empire is the center piece of one of the 1632 books. Several of the historical people are mentioned in the book.

[@YoJesusMorales]

Could you add to the descriptions of these documentaries, "Hey if you liked this documentary I could recommend these books on the subject."

[@ahmadhussainarshad8157]

Nice 👍👌 understood

[@iwanttodie7199]

I hope you'll do one on Japan as well 🤤🤤

[@manooxi327]

tnx

[@triptisengupta764]

Akbar was a great ruler. Jalal - Ud - Din Mohammad Akbar ❤️ The great name had a great soul

[@anonymous_yt6559]

Yea yea a person who kills Hindus forcefully marry hindu girls his men raped and forcefully converted ppl to islam definitely had a great soul

[@anonymous_yt6559]

I will suggest you to stop watching bollywood movies

[@triptisengupta764]

@@anonymous_yt6559 I would rather prefer you to change your view point.. because everything in this world has something bad and good in it.. and remember that the glass is half full not half empty

[@beachboy0505]

Excellent

[@MisterS.]

nice video

[@Khneefer]

12:20 - I see roman legion in the middle - graphic recycling?

[@vista_clinic]

Thanks. Sounds like a good ruler. Brutal of course but on balance helped tolerance.

[@matikhorasani3842]

Fast forward 2 centuries and the Mughal empire would once again be at the mercy of the Afghans.

[@noonemoood9375]

Please more on Indian history and wars

[@francescoresente6913]

Mughal architecture is so cool

[@DrStrange234]

It's a combination of Central Asian and Persian influences also indian .

[@francescoresente6913]

@@DrStrange234 Yes, I love it

[@jk-sh6kf]

It's interesting his grandpa from Andijan(Uzbekistan) and he's Indian. History is the most important thing in our life

[@kylegivens3120]

Could you cover the Songhai Empire, or Aksumite Empire?

[@nahushkanitkar8194]

can u do a video on vijaynagar its rise and fall is just as important or more important than mughals.

[@PrincessStabbityPLS]

I... keep hearing "Moogles" instead of Mughals and that paints interesting pictures in my mind's eye >.>

[@jonvigeorge]

Can you do a doc of the battles fought to unite India under East India Company Inc? British gov's diplomacy, trade, religious expansions in India.

[@darthcalanil5333]

Ironic how he managed to promote a tolerant rule by basically leaving Islam 😂

[@deepseashark5951]

He didn't leave it, he just wasn't very devout, in fact most Muslim rulers weren't that devout like Timur or the Ottoman sultans. He also knew he couldn't rule over India with only Muslims as they were a minority.

[@ithemba]

Over the golden age of Islam the greatest Muslim poets wrote hymns to wine and the love to young beautiful men (copying the greek tradition of homoerotica). Devotion was expressed in many different ways, some were very ascetic but basically individual choice akin to Western monks. Our idea of Islamic puritanism of the Salafiyya is something very modern, that basically had no historic precident and strives for a imaginative past.

[@1BASITSHAH]

But he never left islam and died a muslim lol

[@MerkhVision]

@@ithemba many of the references to wine and love in famous Sufi works of poetry are actually metaphors and similes for spiritual devotion and such, not meant to be taken literally. Its poetry, of course its word usage would be poetic rather than straightforward!

[@ithemba]

@@MerkhVision i didn't say anything in contrast to what you're saying. In fact I did stress how devotion had many faces and contrast that to our modern understanding of wahabiyya ascetic puritanism, didn't I? Still, using wine, it's taste and its intoxicating effect as metaphors for the intoxicating effect of the direct individual experience of God, even strongly erotic ones, tells you a lot about the cultural ranking and appreciation for wine and sweet man love, or else the metaphor would not have been widely have been used over centuries. They have to have had a correspondence to actual lived practices.

[@adalhussain558]

Really enjoyed this video I would like to see a video continuation on after Akbar and how the Mughals continued to rule over India until there decline and end please.

[@shauryajoshi364]

Unlikely. This guy mostly focuses on Roman and European history.

[@Infiniteemptiness]

Pluralism long existed in India from times of mauryas itself Infact pluralism is one of even philosophical element of most indic religions

[@chetanareddy1864]

Please add the subtitles for the video

[@QaribArcadia]

Guess i am early today😏

[@oscarromarioflorezcamargo6342]

Yes, i remember that time i played Eu4 as the Mughals.

[@mahveenusman2184]

He wrote "Sindh" ''Sind'' and but the video was really informative

[@SaurabhTiwari08]

Greatest empire in last 1000 yrs

[@zoro_0_0_]

Vikramaditya empire is the greatest empire.....

[@mylesjude233]

Hey invicta, since you used the term "coubtless" when describing India's cultural and religious diversity, can you give an example of just how varied india was when it came to both fronts.

[@mylesjude233]

Sorry meant to say countless.

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

@@mylesjude233 Well India or South Asia has many religions..as for culture..There are more than 500 cultures...so here you go.

[@60ritikanand69]

@@mylesjude233 India is a subcontinent and encompasses a total population more than any other continent except Asia. It has 22 official languages, 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. Each state of India has its unique culture and different subcultures than any other state. To get a glimpse, you think that Southern states are more closer to South east Asia than to Northern Counterpart. Similarly North-western counterparts share more similarity with Pakistan, Eastern with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan and North-east with Myanmar and other mongoloid counterparts. As for religion, Hinduism isn't one cohesive religion. It is a blanket term used for all native philosophical sects and traditions present in the country before British Colonization. It is also one of the few countries to have a significant population of the all the major religions of the world. This explains its religious diversity. To understand it better, you can think of India as something similar entire Europe being combined as one nation but far more diverse culturally, linguistically and ethnically.

[@RexGalilae]

5:28 A few corrections here. The subsequent clashes with the local kingdoms were NOT religiously motivated. Babur was invited to invade the Delhi sultanate by the sultans and maharanas of the Rajputs provided he wouldn't annex the lands himself. He however, broke the agreement by permanently occupying the former sultanate lands, provoking a war and a clash with the latter at Chausa (I believe). The Sikhs weren't a significant population back then and the destruction that followed Mughal invasions, like the Timurid invasions before them, indiscriminatory of religion

[@yogeshshinde406]

Correct

[@johnvonshepard9373]

interresting.

[@johnvonshepard9373]

xxx

[@johnvonshepard9373]

plugsuit design

[@jannestiemes4328]

I thought Babur’s army was large, but then I realized we’re talking about India

[@iamhoney1018]

Too much population here😅

[@istoppedcaring6209]

this may have played a huge role in the manner in which india gained it's independence later on, this pluralism ensured a great diversity of factors that played a role, where China had a very direct and fairly clear view (4th of may movement) in what they technically wanted, that being a modern western inspired but not dominated state greatly influenced by the ideological principles of the communist revolution in Russia, India had a lot of independence movements who each had different ideas, and who unlike China were actually under a western state, and thus were more nostalgic for their own culture, whilst still realising the inherent benefits those modern states had over other systems of government It was actually mostly the Islamic nationalist faction that steered to a two state solution, as is often the case with minorities, they feared that if this was not done they would have little say, which may have been true; because democracy can translate into dommination by majority groups over minority groups on certain issues, it is interesting that the mughal base of invasions and the base of the Bengal sultanate were chosen as west and east pakistan, but it ofcourse makes sense since these were the most established islamic states in the region and thus would likely be the only ones with a true muslim majority, (many diss this system but i see it as sensible, the concept is sound at least, a muslim could stay where he lived, but if he wished it could decide to try and move to the state where his religious views would be domminant, and thus would not be trampled and vice versa for hindus (the others were simply to small to make claims to such a system)

[@mohammedhasan8388]

There was no sikh community during babur era

[@pisslamicrapepublicofporki3947]

Their was Guru Nanak had started his teaching during 16th century

[@zuboy4272]

@F U B no dumbass , Sikhism came into being under influence of BUDDHIST TEXTS ! they stole word to word like moksha and karm from Buddhist texts

[@ClutchPwnageTv]

According to one school of thought, it's entirely possible Akbar was dyslexic. This contributed to his difficulty with reading, which he compensated for with philosophical debate and becoming a huge patron of the arts.

[@enriib4820]

From the Muslim world, I only placed the ottomans in the pantheon of great empires to include others across on a global scale but now after seeing I have tremendous admiration for the Mughals and their Emperor Akbar. They are now included.

[@dwarasamudra8889]

You didnt mention the conquests of Humayun. Emperor Humayun had already managed to capture Gujarat, Bengal and Malwa; they just broke away temporarily.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

In 1524, Babur tried to conquer the Delhi Sultanate but he was aggressively chased out.

[@adwitiyadhiman6010]

Please try to address the Vijaya Nagar empire in a possible future episode

[@sidakbhatia1206]

@Kabuki Khazana that's not true. Mughals ruled north India for 200 years yet today north India has a sizeable Hindu population. As far as i can tell among the mughals aurangzeg was the only one who was communal. Most mughals either didn't care about religion but were tyrants as most kings are(jahangir) or tried to build a tolerant rule(akbar)

[@sidakbhatia1206]

@Kabuki Khazana also rajputs were the mughals greatest allies in India. There were many intermarriages between mughals and rajputs and the bulk of mughal army was made by hindu rajputs.People like maharana pratap were exception rather than norm.

[@Jumpoable]

Watching that military map made me FINALLY realise that, yes, Chinese chess came from the original Indian chess from the 6th century, known as chaturaṅga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग), literally "four divisions" [of the military] - infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by pieces that evolved into the modern pawn, knight, bishop & rook respectively in Western chess. We still call those pieces in Chinese "foot soldier", "horse", "elephant" & "car/ chariot" & I never knew WHY. That's because Indian warfare used elephants! In fact, the name for Chinese chess is xiangqi [shiang chi] which literally means "elephant chess".