GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mughal s belonged to a branch of the Turks named Chagatai, given the name after the famous Mongol Leader, the second son of Genghis Khan . Babur, who was a Chagatai Turk, had laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term “Mughal” comes from a mispronunciation of the word “Mongol, ‘’ but the Mughals of India were mostly ethnic Turks not Mongolians. However, Barbur (1483-1530), the first Mughal emperor, could trace his blood line back to Chinggis Khan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although early Mughals spoke the Chagatai language and maintained some Turko-Mongol practices, they became essentially Persianized and transferred the Persian literary and high culture to South Asia, thus forming the base for the Indo-Persian culture and the Spread of Islam in South Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Mughals (also spelled Moghul or Mogul) are a number of culturally related clans of Indo-Turkic people in North India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They claim they are descended from the various Central Asian Mongolic and Turkic tribes and Persians that settled in the region.