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{{Short description|Indian title of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals}}
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Even after Mughal rule had collapsed, by about 1720, the other powers in India, such as the ], the British ] and many others, continued to use the title in certain contexts until the Mughal Empire was formally abolished in 1858. For example, the East India Company issued coinage in the name of the "emperor", and bearing this title, until then. Part of the reason for this was to avoid other powers claiming the title, during the prolonged struggle for supremacy in India. Even after Mughal rule had collapsed, by about 1720, the other powers in India, such as the ], the British ] and many others, continued to use the title in certain contexts until the Mughal Empire was formally abolished in 1858. For example, the East India Company issued coinage in the name of the mughal emperors, and bearing this title, until then. Part of the reason for this was to avoid other powers claiming the title, during the prolonged struggle for supremacy in India.


== History == == History ==

Latest revision as of 10:35, 15 January 2025

Indian title of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals Not to be confused with Emperor of India.

Seal of the Mughal Empire

Emperor of Hindustan or the Emperor of India, was the imperial title used by the Delhi Sultanate and then their successors the Mughal Empire It signified their sovereignity over Northern India and later much of the Indian subcontinent.

Bahadur Shah Zafar, last Emperor of Hindustan.

The term Hindustan was used for Northern India and simultaneously for the whole Indian subcontinent during the Medieval period. During the rule of the Mughal Empire in the 16th century, the term was equivalent to Emperor of India.

Even after Mughal rule had collapsed, by about 1720, the other powers in India, such as the Maratha Confederacy, the British East India Company and many others, continued to use the title in certain contexts until the Mughal Empire was formally abolished in 1858. For example, the East India Company issued coinage in the name of the mughal emperors, and bearing this title, until then. Part of the reason for this was to avoid other powers claiming the title, during the prolonged struggle for supremacy in India.

History

Delhi Sultanate

After the Delhi Sultanate gained independence from the Ghurid Empire, it called its land Hindustan, representing its sovereignity over Northern India (Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic plains) and later the Indian subcontinent.

Map of the Delhi Sultanate under Tuqhlaq dynasty, ruling over most of Hindustan.

Scholar Bratindra Nath Mukherjee states that during the Delhi Sultanate, Hindustan simultaneously represented Northern India as well as the entire Indian subcontinent.

Mughal Empire

The Delhi Sultanate was succeeded by the Mughal Empire, which called its polity Hindustan. By this period, Hindustan had come to mean the entirety of the Indian subcontinent rather than only Northern India.

Mughal Empire in 1700, ruling over entirety of the Indian subcontinent except deep south and northeast.

Variations

The title Emperor of India was also used for the Mughal emperors in some translated sources, a term later used by British monarchs.

Other variations were also used:

Sultan of Al-Hind (Salṭan-i-al-Hindīyyah)

Sultanate of Hindustan (Salṭan-i-Hindūstan)

See also

References and notes

  1. Only during the period of the Mughal Empire during and after the 16th century
  2. Excepting northeastern and deep southern regions.
  1. Larned, Josephus Nelson (1895). History for Ready Reference: From the Best Historians, Biographers, and Specialists; Their Own Words in a Complete System of History ... C.A. Nichols Company.
  2. Hindustan), Jahangir (Emperor of (1999). The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
  3. Journal of Historical Research. Department of History, Ranchi University. 1983.
  4. Jackson, Peter (16 October 2003). The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-521-54329-3.
  5. Mukherjee, Bratindra Nath (1989). The Foreign Names of the Indian Subcontinent. Place Names Society of India.
  6. Vanina, Evgenii͡a I͡Urʹevna (2012). Medieval Indian Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man. Primus Books. ISBN 978-93-80607-19-1.
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