mogul empire

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Mogul empire
    n 1: an empire established by the Mogul conquerors of India that
         reigned from 1526 to 1857

from 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.
   [PJC]