The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.104

v1.c15.104

More than three centuries and a quarter later another Musalmān invasion, more effective than the former, came into India by way of Delhi. The Mughals or Mongols of Central Asia had been converted to Islām, and in the time of our King Henry VIII they refounded the Musalmān power at Delhi. For a hundred and fifty years, from the time of our Queen Elizabeth to that of our Queen Anne, a series of Mughal emperors, from Humāyūn to Aurangzeb, ruled in splendid state at Delhi over the greater part of India. Agra, a hundred miles lower down the Jumna, became a secondary or alternative capital, and in these two cities we have to-day the supreme examples of Muhammadan architectural art.