Persians in the Mughal Empire

Throughout the Mughal Empire, a number of ethnic Persian technocrats, bureaucrats, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, poets, artists, theologians and Sufis migrated and settled in different parts of the Indian Subcontinent.

The name Mughal is derived from the original homelands of the Timurids, the Central Asian (Turkestan) steppes once conquered by Genghis Khan and hence known as Moghulistan, "Land of Mongols".

[1][2] Mughal Emperor Humayun was defeated by Sher Shah Suri in 1540 and fled to the refuge of the powerful Safavid Empire in Iran, marching with 40 men and his wife.

He describes in the Risala-i Munazrat that he participated in Mushairas and academic gatherings at the residence of the Indian Muslim Mir Bakhshi Khan-i Dauran,[7][8] the Amir-ul-Umara and Commander-in-Chief of the army of Muhammad Shah.

The most important Shia state in South Asia was established by Persian originally from Khurasan in Persia around 1722 AD with Faizabad as its capital and Sadat Ali Khan as its first Nawab.