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Key

The Mughal house Ahmadnagar (the Nizam Shahs) Bijapur (the Adil Shahs) The Bhonsle Marathas Rajput houses Safavid Persia bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib, vols I–II (1618–1659), 2nd ed. 1925: the 1636 settlement, Golconda and Bijapur 1655–57, Kandahar, the war of succession, Dara's end — source
  2. History of Jahangir (Gladwin's translation, ed. 1930): Akbar's death, Khusrau's revolt, Khurram's revolt and his road into Bengal, the coup on the Jhelum — source
  3. Chand Bibi and the fall of Ahmadnagar, 1600 — Wikipedia — source
  4. Malik Ambar — Wikipedia — source
  5. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak: his killing near Narwar, 1602 — Wikipedia — source
  6. Khusrau Mirza — Wikipedia — source
  7. Guru Arjan: his death in Mughal custody, 1606 — Wikipedia — source
  8. Battle of Bhatvadi, 1624 — Wikipedia — source
  9. Siege of Daulatabad, 1633 — Wikipedia — source
  10. Shahaji: service under Malik Ambar, the 1636 surrender, the Pune estates — Wikipedia — source
  11. The Mughal–Safavid wars over Kandahar, 1622–23 and 1649–53 — Wikipedia — source
  12. Battle of Pratapgarh, November 1659 — Wikipedia — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1650 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Mughal India, 1600–1660

How did the Mughal throne pass from Akbar to Aurangzeb, each heir rising against his father, while the Deccan's resistance passed from Malik Ambar to Shivaji?
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