[1] It is said that the Portuguese called Akbar the Grand Mughal and sent Jesuit missionaries to convert him to Catholicism.
The Mughal empire was romanticized in Europe, particularly from the sixteenth century onward.
The empire's court at Agra, for instance, was often described in glowing terms.
[3] An account stated that it was not uncommon for Britons living in India to adopt the Mughal culture.
After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, was exiled by the British to Myanmar, where he spent the rest of his life in prison.