Is Mughal family still alive?

Mirza Shah Abbas married a daughter of a Muslim merchant of Rangoon, his descendants still live in Rangoon today. There's a good probability that descendants of Jawan Bakht and Shah Zamani Begum might have survived and have been living in Rangoon.
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Is there any person alive from the Mughal family?

Originally Answered: Where are the descendants of mughals today ? All are dead. Bahadur Shah's children were killed by the Britishers after the First War of Independence in 1857.
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Where are Mughals today?

Mughals still lives in India.
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Who is the current Mughal emperor?

“Not only will I present a golden brick, I will also hand over the entire land for construction of the temple,” said 50-year-old Habeebuddin Tucy, who says he is a sixth-generation descendant of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.
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Where is Aurangzeb family now?

Ever since the death of her husband Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht in 1980, Sultana has descended into a life of poverty. The Mughal heiress is forced to live in a tiny two-room hut in Howrah, a slum area of Kolkatta. She shares a kitchen with her neighbours and washes in the street using water from public taps.
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Where is Mughal Family, Tipu Sultan Family and Nizam Family Nowadays? Indian Royal Families Nowadays



Where are Mughal descendants now?

Mirza Shah Abbas married a daughter of a Muslim merchant of Rangoon, his descendants still live in Rangoon today. There's a good probability that descendants of Jawan Bakht and Shah Zamani Begum might have survived and have been living in Rangoon. Zafar had 16 sons and 31 daughters.
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Who killed Mughals?

After the death of Aurangzeb, Marathas defeated the Mughals in Delhi and Bhopal, and extended their empire up to Peshawar by 1758.
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Is Jodha Akbar true story?

Jodhaa Akbar was a largely fictionalised take on Akbar and the legendary Jodha Bai, his queen consort. This was a unique movie for a reason. Perhaps for the first time, the filmmaker approached very eminent historians for help. They said what historians world over largely agree—that Akbar had no wife named Jodha Bai.
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What religion was Mughal?

The Mughal Empire (1526–1858)

The emperors all identified themselves as Muslim, patrilineally descended from Timur (1336–1405, a.k.a. Tamerlane), the Sunni Turkish conqueror of Central Asia. Each individual Mughal emperor developed his own religious beliefs and expressions within what he considered true Islam.
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Was Genghis Khan a Mughal?

The Mughals took great pride in their ancestry. They claimed to be descended from both the 14th-century Turkic warlord Tīmūr (Tamerlane) and the even more formidable Mongol conqueror Genghis (Chingiz) Khan (d. 1227).
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What if Mughals still ruled India?

If Mughals were ruling till now your name would have been Abdul Mohammed Ansari or some thing like that. Women in your family would be living lives worse than in hell. Mughal/Islamic Tyrants butchered, raped and converted crores of Hindus. And in secular India, Muslims revere him for that.
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Which language did Mughals speak?

Though the Turkish language was the mother tongue of the Mughals but they used Persian language in their daily life to such an extent that they got mastery over it and produced excellent pieces of Persian literatures such as the poetry compositions of Babur, Humayun, DaraShukoh and Zaib-un-Nisha etc.
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How is Timur related to Genghis Khan?

The son of a tribal leader, in 1370 Timur became an in-law of a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, when he destroyed the army of Husayn of Balkh. After the battle, he took Husayn of Balkh's widow, Saray Mulk-khanum (daughter of Qazan, the last Chaghatai Khan of Mawarannah, into his harem as his fourth wife.
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Who was Babri boy?

Baburi Andijani or Andizani (Baburi Al-Barin, Persian: بابری اندیجان) (1486 – April 1526) was a captured slave of Mughal Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur and his secret lover, whom he rescued from the camp market in Uzbekistan, in 1499.
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Did Mughals drink alcohol?

Alcohol, opium and intoxicants had long been consumed by the Mughals of Hindustan. By the time of Jahangir's reign, rampant alcoholism was the leading cause of death within the nobility, followed by stomach ailments.
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Who was the most beautiful Mughal queen?

The Story of the most beautiful Mughal Empress: Nur Jahan.
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Which Mughal emperor married his own daughter?

Shahjahan married his daughter Jahanara after the death of his wife Mumtaz Why this is not taught in History about Mughals? SPOT ON! You are 100% correct. They just say Roshanara was favourite of Aurangzeb and Jahanara of Shah Jahan-leaving out he married her also.
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Who was Akbar's love?

She was also known as the first and the last love of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. On her 474th birth anniversary today, let's read a brief timeline of her life: Jodha Bai was born as Heer Kunwari. Her other names were Hira Kunwari and Harka Bai.
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How did Akbar look like?

The eyes sparkled brightly and were "vibrant like the sea in sunshine." His complexion, sometime, described by the Indian term "wheat-coloured," was dark rather than fair. His face was clean shaven, except for a small, closely trimmed moustache worn in the fashion adopted by young Turks on the verge of manhood.
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Who was the most cruel king of India?

Ten Cruel Indian Rulers
  • Firuz Shah Tughlaq. As the head of the Tughlaq dynasty, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ruled over the Sultanate of Delhi for 37 years from 1351 to 1388. ...
  • Pushyamitra Shunga. ...
  • Mihirakula. ...
  • Alauddin Khilji. ...
  • Ashoka. ...
  • Tipu Sultan. ...
  • Aurangzeb. ...
  • Shah Jahan.
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Who ruled India before Mughals?

The Ghaznavid Empire gradually moved in and conquered India and later the Delhi Sultanate, a Delhi-based Muslim kingdom that stretched over large parts of India from 1206–1526, the fall of which eventually led to the Mughal rule in the country.
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Are Mughals Mongols?

The term "Mughal" comes from a mispronunciation of the word "Mongol," but the Mughals of India were mostly ethnic Turks not Mongolians. However, Barbur (1483-1530), the first Mughal emperor, could trace his blood line back to Chinggis Khan.
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What did Mughal emperors eat?

He mostly ate a vegetarian diet and there is an account of him being very fond of a dish called Qubooli. Made of rice, Bengal gram, and dried fruits, this dish is said to have been Aurangzeb's favourite.
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