Khalil Sultan portrait in kazakhstan, an early ancestor of the Mughal tribes
The arrival of Mughal clans in
Kashmir and
Punjab can be traced back to the arrival of Babur in current day Pakistan and India, Who came in India as a refugee,[7] He was invited by
Daulat Khan Lodi to defeat the
Lodi Sultanate, it can also be traced back to the reign of
Akbar during which a bloody feud erupted between Akbar and his brother Nabeel Muhammad Hakim, the ruler of
Kabulistan. Upon Akbar's victory, most tribesmen were relocated to regions easily accessible for Delhi to quash another attempt by the Kabul Mughals.[8]
Most Mughal Khans take descent from the
Barlas tribe, the same tribe from which the kings of the
Mughal India emerged who were indisputably Indians,[9] which is the time period when most Mughals arrived in the subcontinent, but it is unknown when or why the clans had split.
^Warly, Abraham (1995),
The Mughal Empire, Cambridge University Press, p. 10,
ISBN978-0-521-56603-2, retrieved 9 August 2017{{
citation}}: Check |archive-url= value (
help) Quote: "Babur desperately needed to distance himself from his relentless adversary, and it was thus that he seriously began to look on India as a possible refuge"
^Richards, John F. (1995),
The Mughal Empire, Cambridge University Press, p. 2,
ISBN978-0-521-56603-2,
archived from the original on 22 September 2023, retrieved 9 August 2017 Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the dynasty and the empire itself became indisputably Indian. The interests and futures of all concerned were in India, not in ancestral homelands in the Middle East or Central Asia. Furthermore, the Mughal Empire emerged from the Indian historical experience. It was the end product of a millennium of Muslim conquest, colonization, and state-building in the Indian subcontinent."