ABSTRACT
Each city was now dominated by a great walled fort containing the palace and audience halls. Inside and outside the walls the Mughals also constructed great mosques, gardens, tombs (such as the Taj Mahal at Agra), and other monumental buildings in the Persian style, which they further developed and made distinctively Indian. Literature, music, and the graphic arts = ourished under imperial patronage at both capitals, which were the seat of government alternately, at the pleasure of the emperor. Strong imperial rule was o* en oppressive, but it helped to ensure an unprecedented period of unity and prosperity in which most Indians shared. Hindus too could feel pride in the new imperial grandeur, for they were given an important role in it.
