The Moghul Dynasty ruled India from 1527 to 1857. The founder of the Moghuls was Babur, who was born in 1483 of a ruler in a small Asian state, Ferghana. At the young age of eleven, Babur inherited the throne from his father. After a long period of hardship and grave danger, Babur detained the Afghanistan throne in 1504. Twenty years later, Babur and 12,000 soldiers embarked to India. He and his men battled against Afghan King of Delhi and triumphed, even though they were outnumbered. Babur was only the emperor of India for four years before his untimely death in 1530. The next emperor was Babur's son, Humayun, who reigned from 1530 to 1556. Humayun showed no relation to Babur in any way. He was an alcoholic and was addicted to opium. The only use Humayun was to India was that he was th

e father of Akbar, the greatest ruler of India.

Women played a major role in the daily lives during the Moghul Dynasty. Their living conditions always varied on religion and class, but they continually deteriorated. The Islamic purdah, a law requiring Muslim women to be veiled and not reveal most of their skin, was one of the many impediments on the Moghul women. Hinduism didn't require purdah, but upper- caste members regularly dressed in veils. Moghul women excelled as weavers. Each women, not matter her caste, would spin thread for her use. As stated in Women In World History by Sarah Shaver Hughes, " India's women hand spinners could also have bragged of their part in creating a textile industry that for a time, before industrialization, seemed to clothe the world." (60) Every part of India surged ahead in some kind of textile making, mostly, thanks to women. At one point of time, it was estimated that Bengal produced over two million pounds of silk a year.

Muslim and Hindu women also had certain duties they had to fill and had to follow. The differences between Muslim and Hindus when marrying are; Muslim women were allowed to inherit land property, but the Hindu forbade it. Muslim men could have several wives, and the Hindu was monogamous. Muslim allowed divorce and widows were allowed to remarry. The Hindus weren't allowed to divorce and the widows were actually discouraged to remarry and encouraged to commit suicide on their husband's grave. The only similarity between these two religions is that when women marry, they'd join their husband's household.

For most citizens the payment of land taxes was their only contact to the government. The principle function of the government was the collection of taxes, maintaining order, enforcing the law, and the creation and uptake of roads and bridges. The government did not care about irrigation and water concerns; relief for those is trouble and didn't even reduce taxes during times of famine. A comprehensive land register, when one documents everything on one's land, is the foundation of taxation. Taxation of the land was about a third of India's gross prod

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