Interesting post by Aslan Pahari on the ancestry of Mughal Emperors

Added the first 5 below for those of you without Threads.

tl;dr the later Mughals almost all have majority Indian ancestry.

Interesting post by Aslan Pahari on the ancestry of Mughal Emperors

Added the first 5 below for those of you without Threads.

tl;dr the later Mughals almost all have majority Indian ancestry.

https://www.threads.net/@aslanpahari/post/DHkCcu_T3NM

Babur, the first Mughal:
100% Turko-Mongol Father: Umar Shaikh Mirza (Timurid Turkic-Mongol)
Mother: Qutlugh Nigar Khanum (Mongol, daughter of Yunus Khan of Moghulistan)

Humayun:
50% Turko-Mongol (from father Babur)
50% Persian (from mother Maham Begum, Persian noblewoman)

Akbar:
25% Turko-Mongol (from paternal grandfather Babur)
75% Persian (50% from paternal grandmother Maham Begum, 25% from mother Hamida Banu Begum, a Persian Shia noblewoman)

Jahangir:
12.5% Turko-Mongol (from great-grandfather Babur)
37.5% Persian (from grandmother Maham Begum and mother Hamida Banu Begum)
50% Rajput (Rajasthani) (from mother Mariam-uz-Zamani, a Rajput princess of Amber)

Aurangzeb:
6.25% Turko-Mongol (from ancestor Babur)
25% Rajput (Rajasthani) (from great-grandmother Mariam-uz-Zamani)
68.75% Persian (from father Shah Jahan and mother Arjumand Banu Begum — both of largely Persian noble descent)