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HUMAYUN (15o8-1556)
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See also:HUMAYUN (15o8-1556) , See also:Mogul See also:emperor of See also:Delhi, succeeded his See also:father See also:Baber in See also:India in 1530, while his See also:brother Kamran obtained the See also:sovereignty of See also:Kabul and See also:Lahore. Humayun was thus See also:left in See also:possession of his father's See also:recent conquests, which were in dispute with the See also:Indian Afghans under Sher Shah, See also:governor of See also:Bengal. After ten years of fighting, Humayun was driven out of India and compelled to flee to See also:Persia through the See also:desert of See also:Sind, where his famous son, See also:Akbar the See also:Great, was See also:born in the See also:petty fort of See also:Umarkot (1542). Sher Shah was killed at the storming of See also:Kalinjar 0545), and Humayun, returning to India with Akbar, then only thirteen years of See also:age, defeated the Inds-Afghan See also:army and reoccupied Delhi (1555)• India thus passed again from the Afghans to the Moguls, but six months afterwards Humayun was killed by a fall from the See also:parapet of his See also:palace (1556), leaving his See also:kingdom to Akbar. The See also:tomb of Humayun is one of the finest Mogul monuments in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood of Delhi, and it was here that the last of the Moguls, Bahadur Shah, was captured by See also:Major See also:Hodson in 18J7. End of Article: HUMAYUN (15o8-1556)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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