Government of the Mughal Empire

The government of the Mughal Empire was the administrative system through which the Mughal Empire ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1526 until 1857. Its foundations were Central Asian: the dynasty carried into India the layered Perso-Islamic and Turko-Mongol traditions of the Timurid world, and grafted them onto structures inherited from the Delhi Sultanate and sharpened by Sher Shah Suri.