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How did Babur establish the Mughal Empire?

2 sourcesDrawn from Satya’s sourced local record.

Babur (1526): Founded Mughal rule after victory at the First Battle of Panipat. Mughal Empire (1526): Formally dissolved after the Great Revolt; Bahadur Shah Zafar exiled to Rangoon Battle of Khanwa (1527): Babur defeats Rana Sanga's Rajput confederacy, securing the new empire's survival.

What the record shows

• Babur (1526)person
  Founded Mughal rule after victory at the First Battle of Panipat.
• Mughal Empire (1526)polity
  Formally dissolved after the Great Revolt; Bahadur Shah Zafar exiled to Rangoon
• Battle of Khanwa (1527)event
  Babur defeats Rana Sanga's Rajput confederacy, securing the new empire's survival.
• Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1748)person
  Lost Punjab to the Durranis; deposed and blinded by his own wazir.
• Akbar (1556)person
  Expanded across north India; religious tolerance (sulh-i-kul), Rajput alliances, revenue reform.
• Akbar II (1806)person
  Nominal emperor under Company protection; his writ barely ran beyond the Red Fort.

Sources

• Curated ruler/event facts (project editors) (no public link on record) — editor-written from standard reference histories; pending per-fact primary citations
• Wikipedia (English) — tertiary; used for cross-checking and reader deep-links · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (text)

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