Mughal people

|related = [[Mongolic peoples|Mongolic]] and [[Turkic peoples]]

|related = [[Mongolic peoples|Mongolic]] and [[Turkic peoples]]

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The ”’Mughals”’ ({{lang-fa|{{nq|مغول}}}}; [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] and {{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|مغل}}}}; also spelled Moghul or Mogul) are a number of culturally related [[clan]]s of [[North India]] and [[Pakistan]].<ref name=geo>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of Geography|year=1997|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|location=Wisconsin|isbn=0-395-86448-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/houghtonmifflind00houg}}</ref> They claim they are descended from the various Central Asian [[Mongolic peoples]]<ref name=”:Genetic Genealogy”>{{Cite journal|author = Сабитов Ж. М., Баймуханов Н. Б.|editor= |format= |url= https://www.academia.edu/17004570|title= Y-STR гаплотипы узбеков, уйгуров, таджиков, пуштунов, хазарейцев, моголов из базы данных Family Tree DNA|type= |orig-year= |agency = |edition= The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy|location= |date= 2015|year= 2015|publisher= |volume= |number= 2|pages = 22–23|series= |isbn = |issn = |doi = |bibcode = |arxiv = |pmid = |archive-url = |archive-date = |language= ru|quote= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Atlas Of World History|author=Liz Wyse and Caroline Lucas|year=1997|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|location=Scotland}}</ref> and [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] tribes that settled in the region.<ref name=geo/> The term ”Mughal” (or ”Mughul” in Persian) literally means Mongolian.<ref>{{cite book|title=Collins Compact Dictionary|year=2002|publisher=HarperCollins|location=Glasgow|isbn=0-00-710984-9}}</ref>

The ”’Mughals”’ ({{lang-fa|{{nq|مغول}}}}; [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] and {{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|مغل}}}}; also spelled Moghul or Mogul) are a number of culturally related [[clan]]s of [[North India]] and [[Pakistan]].<ref name=geo>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of Geography|year=1997|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|location=Wisconsin|isbn=0-395-86448-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/houghtonmifflind00houg}}</ref> They assert descent from the various Central Asian [[Mongolic peoples]]<ref name=”:Genetic Genealogy”>{{Cite journal|author = Сабитов Ж. М., Баймуханов Н. Б.|editor= |format= |url= https://www.academia.edu/17004570|title= Y-STR гаплотипы узбеков, уйгуров, таджиков, пуштунов, хазарейцев, моголов из базы данных Family Tree DNA|type= |orig-year= |agency = |edition= The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy|location= |date= 2015|year= 2015|publisher= |volume= |number= 2|pages = 22–23|series= |isbn = |issn = |doi = |bibcode = |arxiv = |pmid = |archive-url = |archive-date = |language= ru|quote= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Atlas Of World History|author=Liz Wyse and Caroline Lucas|year=1997|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|location=Scotland}}</ref> and [[Turco-Persian tradition|Turco-Persian]] tribes that settled in the region.<ref name=geo/> The term ”Mughal” (or ”Mughul” in Persian) literally means Mongolian.<ref>{{cite book|title=Collins Compact Dictionary|year=2002|publisher=HarperCollins|location=Glasgow|isbn=0-00-710984-9}}</ref>

==History and origin==

==History and origin==