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Write a short note about: The Mughal Nobility.

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Mughal Sultanate-e-Hind, was an Islamic Turkic-Mongol kingdom that began in 1526, ruled the Indian subcontinent in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century.As the Central Asian nobles had generally been nurtured on the Turko-Mongol tradition of sharing power with the royalty—an arrangement incompatible with Akbar’s ambition of structuring the Mughal centralism around himself—the emperor’s principal goal was to reduce their strength and influence. The emperor encouraged new elements to join his service, and Iranians came to form an important block of the Mughal nobility. Akbar also looked for new men of Indian background. Indian Afghans, being the principal opponents of the Mughals, were obviously to be kept at a distance, but the Sayyids of Baraha, the Bukh?r? Sayyids, and the Kamb?s among the Indian Muslims were specially favoured for high military and civil positions.More significant was the recruitment of Hindu Rajput leaders into the Mughal nobility. This was a major step, even if not completely new in Indo-Islamic history, leading to a standard pattern of relationship between the Mughal autocracy and the local despotism. The Mughal nobility came to comprise mainly the Central Asians (T?r?n?s), Iranians (Ir?n?s), Afghans, Indian Muslims of diverse subgroups, and Rajputs. Both historical circumstances and a planned imperial policy contributed to the integration of this complex and heterogeneous ruling class into a single imperial service. The emperor saw to it that no single ethnic or religious group was large enough to challenge his supreme authority.

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