Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Mughal Empire

  • Akbar the Great: Medical aspects

    Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (1542–1605), known to history as Akbar the Great, was the third emperor of the Mughal dynasty and one of the most influential rulers of early modern South Asia. Ascending to the throne at the age of thirteen, he transformed a fragile empire into a vast and stable polity. His reign is remembered…

  • Babur, the first Mughal emperor

    Babur is remembered as the conqueror of India and founder of the Mughal dynasty. Born in 1483 in Andijan, present-day Uzbekistan, his full name was Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Babur. His family was part of the “Mongolized Turkic” population that arose following the conquests by Genghis Khan in c. 1200 and the establishment of the mixed…

  • Ancient India in 1,500 words

    Homo sapiens originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago and arrived in India in waves beginning about 65,000 years ago. Early populations were hunter-gatherers and did not adopt a sedentary way of life until about 7,000 years BCE, when they began to domesticate plants and animals. As their civilization expanded, villages grew into towns and…