The Rohillas, Afghan tribesmen, established their control in the Rohilkhand region (bareilly, etc.) during the reign of Muhammad Shah as central authority collapsed.

Nadir Shah's easy victory and plunder of Delhi exposed the military hollowness of the Mughal Empire to the world, encouraging the Marathas and the British to be more aggressive.

Turkan-i-Chahalgani was associated with the Slave Dynasty (Iltutmish/Balban). It is not related to the Mughal decline.

Suraj Mal is often described as the 'Plato of the Jat tribe' and the 'Jat Odysseus' because he consolidated the Jat power and made Bharatpur a formidable state.

In 1835, the British East India Company stopped issuing coins in the name of the Mughal Emperor, symbolizing the end of acknowledging his sovereignty.

Following the failure of the 1857 revolt, the British captured the Red Fort, and the royal family was evicted, ending the Mughal residence there.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was born to Emperor Akbar II and his Hindu wife, Lal Bai.

The Mughals notoriously neglected the development of a strong navy. This was a weakness, but their decline was driven by internal decay, land wars, and invasions. They never had a 'Strong Naval Power'.

The period from the death of Aurangzeb (1707) to the end of the empire (1857) is historically referred to as the period of the 'Later Mughals'.

John Surman led the embassy to the court of Farrukhsiyar in 1715, which eventually secured the famous Imperial Firman of 1717.