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LATER MUGHALS                         who was a ruler only in name.

            The Mughal rulers after Aurangzeb are called the        He was deported to Rangoon
            Later Mughals . They were weak and incompetent.         (in Myanmar) in 1858 after the
            The empire continued to shrink during their rule.       First  War    of  Independence
            Bahadur Shah Zafar   was the last Mughal emperor        where he died. With this, the
                                                                    Mughal empire came to an end.
                                                                                                       Bahadur Shah Zafar






            v The first six Mughal rulers are called the great Mughals who were—Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah
               Jahan and Aurangzeb.
            v The Mughal empire came into being after Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the battle of Panipat in 1526.

            v Babur and Humayun could not get time to consolidate the empire.
            v Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun and established his empire in India. He was an able military commander
               and administrator.
            v Akbar became the emperor in his childhood and he proved to be the greatest Mughal ruler.
            v Jahangir and Shah Jahan continued with the policy of religious tolerance of Akbar and ruled well.
            v Aurangzeb deviated from the policy of religious tolerance so he had to face revolts all his life and it put the
               Mughal empire on the path of decline and disintegration.









            A.   Tick (3) the right option :
                 1.   ______________    was the last Mughal emperor.
                      (a) Bahadur Shah Zafar           (b) Babur                       (c) Akbar
                 2.   ______________    was a tolerant king.

                      (a) Jahangir                     (b) Akbar                       (c) both of them
                 3.   Sher Shah Suri was an able ______________  .
                      (a) general                      (b) administrator               (c) both of these
                 4.   The Grand Trunk Road was built by ______________   .
                      (a) Akbar                        (b) Sher Shah Suri              (c) Shah Jahan

                 5.   The second battle of Panipat was fought in ______________ .
                      (a) 1556                         (b) 1557                        (c) 1565
                 6.   The later Mughals were ______________   .
                      (a) weak                         (b) incompetent                 (c) both of these
                 7.   Nur Jahan was the wife of ______________  .

                      (a) Humayun                      (b) Akbar                       (c) Jahangir
                 8.   ______________    is known as the engineer king.
                      (a) Babur                        (b) Shah Jahan                  (c) Jahangir

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