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1526: How Babur's Cannons, Humayun's Exile and Akbar's Genius Built the Mughal Empire

A 12-year-old king of a tiny Central Asian valley lost everything, then conquered India with gunpowder and daring. His son lost the empire and won it back; his grandson Sher Shah rebuilt it in five years; and his great-grandson Akbar turned conquest into a civilisation. Mughal origins, explained.