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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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