Mughal Empire at Its Greatest Extent

1686

After a long and costly campaign, Aurangzeb conquered the Deccan sultanate of Bijapur and, the following year, Golconda with its diamond mines. The Mughal empire now stretched from Kabul to Cape Comorin, covering most of the Indian subcontinent. It was also, though nobody quite realized, past its peak, and the wars that achieved its maximum extent also sowed the seeds of its collapse.