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The Mughal Empire attempted to unify the Indian subcontinent with a centralized governing system. The emperor gave titles of nobility and land grants to individuals, making each a local leader of his province. The nobles in return would pay a tax to the emperor. This nobility was not hereditary; if a local leader died, the emperor would name another person to take that noble's place.

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Local leaders relied more on the emperor for their authority.

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In societies that had a hereditary nobility, nobles and their children were secure in the power that they had. In the Mughal Empire, any person who wished to acquire this nobility had to receive it directly from the emperor himself. This contributed to the centralized government of the Mughal Empire.

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The Mughal Empire was founded by Babur , a Central Asian ruler who was descended from the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur on his father's side and from Chagatai, the second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother's sid

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