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'''Grand Mughal''' or '''Mogul''', also ''Great Mughal'', is a title coined by Europeans for the ruler of the [[Mughal Empire]] of India. The Mughals themselves used the title ''[[Padishah]]''. The title is especially associated with the third in the line, [[Akbar the Great]] (1542-1605).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/taj_mahal/tlevel_1/t1_mughal.html|title=...the Mughal dynasty|publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] (pbs.org)|accessdate=April 11, 2010}}</ref> It is said that the Portuguese called Akbar the Grand Mughal and sent Jesuit missionaries to convert him to Catholicism.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622|last1=Boavida|first1=Isabel|last2=Pennec|first2=Herve|last3=Ramos|first3=Manuel Joao|date=2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=9781908145000|location=Surrey, UK|pages=5}}</ref> <br />
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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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=European Perceptions of Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe's Fragile Ego Uncovered|last=O'Brien|first=P.|date=2008|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230613058|location=New York|pages=81}}</ref> An account stated that it is not uncommon for Britons living in India to adopt the Mughal culture.<ref name=":0" /> <br />
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The Mughal rule persisted until the mid-nineteenth century,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Zg6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT288&dq=Grand+Mughal+title#q=Grand%20Mughal%20title|title=Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture|last=Maxwell|first=Catherine|date=2017-10-20|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191005213|language=en}}</ref> ending in 1857 after the of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], the last [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]] was exiled by the [[British Raj|British]] to [[Myanmar]] where he spent the rest of his life in prison. <br />
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In the same way the [[Ottoman sultan]] was known as the "Grand Turk".<br />
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