As an historian of South Asia, Richards relays the book in such detailed and distinct construction of what was the Mughal Empire from its lives of emperors, its destruction, its operation, the individuals who influenced the emperors, and its artistic contribution to Indian culture. The Mughal Empire portrays Richards’s ability to carry forward the history concerning Mughal India in the centuries to come as it projects a legacy that was ancient yet powerful. While one inevitably agrees with Richards starting point of Bābur’s triumph in Pānīpat, the endpoint, which depicts the end of Mughal Empire, is somewhat