Mogul

Mogul, also spelt Moghul and Mughal, is really but another form of Mongol. The term 'great Mogul' is the popular designation of the emperor of Delhi in India. The first Great Mogul was Baber (q.v.), a descendant of Timur the Tartar or Tamerlane (q.v.); he founded the empire in 1526. The dynasty lost its power and territories to the English in 1765. The last emperor, having joined the rebels in 1857, died a prisoner in Rangoon (1862). See Keene, Moghul Empire (1866).