ABSTRACT
This chapter examines on Mughal amphibious warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and explores the geographical conditions to negotiate in the Indian subcontinent and the consequent adaptations that they had to make to their post-nomadic way of war-making. The contemporary Mughal chronicles hardly mention mounted archery in Mughal pitched battles after the 1570s. When the Mughals achieved decisive military supremacy over larger parts of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta for the first time in 1612, and neutralized all of its major opponents in the region. The campaigns in the Bengal Delta involved a massive number of skilled and unskilled labourers for the execution of military operations. The chapter examines the military activity, amphibious wars, and thereby trying to highlight the different factors, other than cavalry and gunpowder artillery, that went into the complex process of Mughal military expansion.
