Audrey TruschkeAlright folks, let’s try again with some specificity — Float me your questions about Mughal history and let’s see what we can do...
Koshy George@audreytruschke Are the Mughals descendants of the Mongols? How are these two groups related?
@Koshy Q: Are the Mughals descendants of the Mongols?
A: Yes. The Mughals--as we call them--claimed descent from both the Mongols and the Timurids. They and everybody else in their time considered the Timurid lineage more illustrious, so that was usually emphasized. It's really an accident of modern historiography that we refer to them as the Mughals.
" It's really an accident of modern historiography that we refer to them as the Mughals."
Can you expand a little on this, would the term Mughal be foreign to the "Mughals"? Is their a term they themselves used to refer to their dynasty?