For over three centuries, they shaped India’s politics, economy, art, architecture, administration, and plural traditions. To delete their contributions is to deny students the right to know their own layered history. Shah Jahan and the Flourishing of Arts: From the Taj Mahal to the Red Fort, Mughal architecture remains India’s most enduring aesthetic legacy. As historian Shireen Moosvi shows in The Economy of the Mughal Empire (1987), India under the Mughals accounted for nearly a quarter of the world’s GDP. As historian Shahid Amin has argued, the colonial archive deliberately exaggerated Mughal “decline” to make the British appear as India’s saviours.