Warrior Empire: The Mughals
Warrior Empire: The Mughals is a sweeping, in-depth portrait of India's most colorful, violent, and majestic era.
From 1526 to 1858, this dynasty of nomadic warriors indulged their appetite for territorial expansion, spreading their rule throughout the Indian subcontinent.
Though they conquered their kingdom with crushing brutality, the Mughals were also brilliant technological innovators and masters of art and architecture.
This program offers lush, detailed images of Mughal accomplishments such as the glorious Taj Mahal, palaces, forts, water systems, elaborate gardens, and richly crafted artwork.
Step-by-step scientific recreations of advanced Mughal metallurgy and weaponry show the meticulous production of chain mail armor for a battalion of elephants, lethally flexible composite bows, rocketry, and sword-smith techniques passed down through the generations, and still alive today.
Join us for an enthralling history of the inventive warfare, material excess, architectural marvels, and cultural flowering that shaped modern India.
The determining factor for the fall for the Mughal Empire was the superhuman effort made by the hugely outnumbered Sikhs starting 1699 - The most important part of the Indian History that has been totally ignored by the naive English historians - disappointing and poor research research
Kundal - apart from the wealth they would have had your sisters, wives and daughters in their Harems as well - would you have liked that too?
Interesting documentary, but the Taj is a Hindu Vedic Design with Hindu religious symbols all over the place - Why Shah Jehan decided to use a Hindu Vedic Design is a mystery- unless Shahjehan converted an existing building - just look at his Black Taj project - total shambles
when we contemplate of history some hundred years back there was no religion called muslim and some more hundred or thousand years back there was no any religion human made religion and there is pointless to prove that which religion is perfect and best. that's also pointless what mughals or hitler or any brutal ruler did to people that time the point is human made religion and now they are killing other people to prove their religion best. so dear friends forget about the history of religions and hatred make history of love and peace.
I only want to say mughals are great
Mughal means 'mixed blood'. Babur was of Turkish/Mongol descent. His mother was mongol and his father was a turk. He hated being called Mongol, so he devised himself to be called Mughal. His descendants then had interracial marriages with hindu and other princesses from other countries such as Turkey. Rajputs (Hindu warrior kings) called them Mughal, as they were different from the pure-breed of royals in India.
The word mughal is mispronunciation of word mongol
Mughals are true shahi blood
They have rule India due to there military power
But after the death of orangzaib they started to decline
Inspite of all these things history admire them alot.
And I proudly say this thing that Muslims are always
Superior then bloody Hindus.
@jack 1952
i have ur answer sir
truks were muslims
they had the great Ottoman Empire including baghdad , Damascus, jeruusalem, medina and mecca it was a huge area governed by Turks
they had Caliphate system in there Empire. Turks Supported Germans in first world war but after the abashment of Caliphate in Turky by Kemal Attaturk the empire was shrink ed in size and the lost a major part of it this was done by Britain.
Babur was the first Mughal King and he was the youngest king of world's history
mughals were very skilled warriors and the extended the Empire till northern india
taj mahal was built by Shahjehan history has all proofs. Mughals were great warriors but they did sum mistake due to which they faced a great loss
the story of Tejo mahale is totally fake and rubbish
abe chutia if u dont have a courage to tell that u are muslim then y r u teeling yourself Hindu. Mugal's are illiterate. you are saying Tajmahal & red ford was built by Mugal. Go and update yr knowledge about this. Tajmahal was Tejomahal and Lal Kila was Lal kothi build 200-500 year before than the claiment year. Same for the Qutub Minar. It was Vishnu Astamb. Still u can find sanskrit scripture on Vishnu Ashatam.
it was good till the carcass. honestly. this is supposed to be a history and you could easily have found some other content as opposed to a series of semi-demonic yank extermination specialists. yeah i get the point that the mughals were somewhat akin.
i have read all this comments andd most of them are anti muslim.and you know what ,all these people who were anti muslim should get a life and live it instead of going on about how brutal muslims are and were.the funny thing about all these anti muslim posts is that they do not have proof.
the name Mughol and Mangol is different but the reality is that that zahirudin Muhamad babur the founder of indian Mughol Empire was born in Andi jan a province today in Country Named Uzbekistan.
he came to kabul but faced to resistance why he came to kabul was the reason of his defeat against Shaibani Khan another warior from same region he was shaibani khan was called shahbek too.
babur has 2 books writen by him one is poetry and the other one is much more like his dairy but it is a history now called (Babur nama)
his poetry is in turkic language not same is turkish in istanbul but a dialact of turkish language spoken in centrel asia.
so lets not call them mangols they r turkic muslims of central asia.
many wars might happened in india during their period and many good things might also have happened. but there is a political point that indians should always thank for is that they keept the indian sovereignty as one united till the could.
but ppl after them divided the india and created small countries and problems between them.
Dear All,
After seeing this documentary remember this.
YOU HAVE JUST WITNESS - THE MASTER PIECE OF PRO-COLONIAL WAY OF PORTRAYING HISTORY
You may ask why or probably any of you might be infuriated by this comment of mine. But allow me to explain objectively...
(1) Defeated Purpose of this Documentary:
By its title the documentary was meant to be WARRIOR EMPIRE: THE MUGHALS but by the very beginning for reasons un-known except what I can make out an apologetic reason brevity of time; this documentary truly fails to trace down the Origins of this Empire, which actually is vital to do so when you make a documentary especially that relates to history, especially that relates to "Warrior Empires" & especially that relates to being Historically Right(ok, I discount the historical part as it is a PRO-COLONIAL DOCUMENTED HISTORY)
(2) Non-objective Documentary:
Personally I thought a third party view that of an Non-muslim,Non-pakistani, Non-Indian or at the least a Non-Asian would be a wonder thing to see how do they do justice to the Indian history. But what I saw was absolute dis-appointed. I am dis-appointed because historically they never showed from where the Mughals originated(Genghis Khan - Mongols of course,that later became residents of Afghanistan... but a vital point missed out - WHEN THEY WERE NOT MUSLIMS & How they accepted Islam), where did they led first their expedition of the so called projected "WEALTH HUNGRY,WOMEN HUNGRY, POWER HUNGRY LOATHING IN PLUNDERS WAR"? where? The answer to this lies in the history of "THE DOWNFALL OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE"(see Documentary Science & Islam 3rd part) - by the way this no way means that the (MONGOLS=MUGHALS that is a Persian translation) were the only cause of the downfall of the Islamic Empire(this is me being historically correct). Therefore the very objective of the documentary seems defeated or rather a documentary probably with a objective to keep it PRO-COLONIALLY CORRECT!
(3) Very Immature Portrayal of history:
I dont know for what reasons, the people who made this documentary so much oscillated between showing the advancement of weaponry in details(although to some extend serving the objective of the title) but fail to establish the concrete reason of the Mughals conquest & subsequent well welcomed settlement of them in India. All through the documentary the silly reason projected was "LEGENDARY WEALTH OF A PLACE, SLAVERY, CONCUBINAGE, ASSASSINATIONS etc". This sort of silly reason are good for pleasing once personal desires, pleasing own people or rather misguiding,please the Monarchs, please once(read colonial) Self-Righteousness but hardly it will make a case for good history. Why on earth will any warring dynasty that loves & have lived nomadic life of plundering around suddenly do the following:-
Loot the Wealth of a Place & Decides to make that place its permanent residence, just not residence, declare it as their Capital or Central place of Operations(are you serious!..Did the British do so?). More strange enough utilizing that wealth to develop cities - WERE THE MUGHALS OUT OF THEIR MIND?
Slavery! What sort of slavery sir? A slavery where employment was provided to individuals & groups and just not employment, slaves were given the administrative business itself Leading to Setup of Industries itself- WoW I didnot know that was slavery! Mughals also setup political alliance & set states letting the very people enslaved to govern those states..Is this Slavery Sir? there is more I can mention, but it suffice to understand those Mughals absolutely had a Different definition of Slavery in their Dictionaries.
Concubinage! Aah I dont want to talk about this practice it is enough to know if concubinage was so prevalent (as the Mughals ruled India for 400+ years) the natives would reflect a different breed, different ethnicity, perhaps different religion. For Example : Consider Australia!
Assasination - I think something called Politics is involved when some handles such large empires. I would have loved this documentary if this was sufficiently handled! - It is Important to Project this Aspect when we speak of Empires!
So Overall very very below average stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
(4) TIPU SULTAN
Big Time Blunder!!!!! How on earth you put this guy story into the Mughals history Sahib? We have grown up from being just: Snake Charmers, Elephant Drivers & Carriage Pullers!
A separate documentary should be the right thing to do to speak about Tipu Sultan or atleast the easy way was to change the Documentary title to something like: Warrior Empire: India or Warrior Empire: Mu**im to pin point perfectly!
Overall this documentary can please to feed egos & misguide a generation that is already fighting too many things.
People who are non-educated in history might derive conclusion like:
"Look! Look at those filthy piece of race! What would happen to them if we would not have descended on them to Civilzed them! Aaa...."
@ Muslim
I don't know if I completely understand your point, but;
Who were the Turks? Muslims.
Who were the Moors? Muslim like you.
Now we are even.
What we have both demonstrated is that no one is immune to human failings.
A message to every stupid, ill informed and self made historians HERE like @waleed who are commenting like they are the illegal descendants of babar.
WORLDS history is full of barbaric invasions starting from greece and rome. Dont you know how ruthless they were? Dont you know how they used to put humans against animals in the COLLOSEUM just for pleasure.
who were the goths? non muslims
who were the huns? non muslims like you all
Dont you know how ill mannered these civilizations were? Even the crime of incest was common.
enlighten yourselves before becoming self made, self imposed PHILOSOPHERS
@ Kundal
You are not Hindu. You are, infact, a Muslim apologist pretending to be a Hindu to put a positive spin on the Hindu Holocaust in India.
The Muslim invaders in India committed the most brutal Holocaust ever known to Mankind. It is estimated that 80 million Hindus and 120 million Buddhists were slaughtered by the muslims in the name of allah. Secret archeologial expeditions have just begun in the area known as the Hindu Kush(translated as Hindu Slaughter) where, it is said that, the muslims beheaded Hindus and Buddhists and piled their heads into a mountain to match actual mountains in the area. It is said that during this Holocaust, more human beings were murdered than in all the other genocides in the history of mankind put together. However, this part of history is systematically removed from all texbooks in India to avoid angering the 600 million Muslims living in in Asia.
@ Danny C
The use of the word thief is in reaction to an earlier post which implied one imperialist is less guilty than another. So I will say "an imperialist is an imperialist is an imperialist". It doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.
Use of terms like 'theft' in relation to the Mughals (or the British or the Turks or anyone else) owes more to emotion and modern politics than to history. As outrageous as it may be to our modern sensibilities, imperialism was the default position of the world from the rise of civilisation to well after the enlightenment. Go back far enough and there are virtually no people who earth who are entirely innocent of having practised it at one time or another.
if "a thief is a thief is a thief"
then once a person or a nation starts taking, there's no incentive to moderate, or cease. and since many nations have long histories of taking, providing motivation for reform strikes me, at least, as somewhat useful.
history tends to discriminate a bit more finely then your maxim, as well - also moral theory.
but if keeping things 'simple' works for you, fine and well.
and if you want to ignore the christians killed during the crusades, in order to emphasize the muslim angle, that's ok too.
just as long as you don't mind not having your judgements taken seriously.
personally, i believe religion usually serves as a proxy for tribal/regional/national interest. especially for dispossessed people. look at the rc in eire & poland, the islamist movement in palestine & iran.
deal with the dispossession and injustice, and maybe the religious craziness moderates. with iran, a persisting reaction has been empowered - but we in the west created the monster. iran was socializing back in the 50s, but we killed that baby and persisted with a colonial puppet. our bad.
@ Ryan
The Mughals did not come to contribute anything to India but to enrich themselves and to settle down on land that did not belong to them. The British did not go there to live, only to take resources that didn't belong to them. That does not make one thief better than the other. A thief is a thief is a thief.
The difference with the Mughals is that they didn't steal from India and transfer the wealth and resources to a metropole in a different continent. They stayed in India and helped contribute to an already great civilization, creating a unique Indo-Islamic world that was sometimes marked by unbelievable tolerance and terrible intolerance. The British may have given India railroads, but as Nehru said, all you have to do is look at the statistics: the places that were under British rule the longest, unsurprisingly, are the poorest parts of India.
We're all human beings. We should be ashamed and proud of our accomplishments TOGETHER. That someone was born closer to a place where something dark happened in the past does not make them more to blame than the rest of us.
So lets think of crusades and barbarian wars as deeds of OUR race in whole and become better Together.
I think also blaiming religion for everything is quite near sighted. After all it is intolerance in general that breeds war not only beliefs in gods. Take football, culture, flags etc for example.
Tolerance is the key. (in my humble opinion)