The Moghul Empire

what a joke. stop listening to RSS and VHP for your history lessons. under the mughals, india's GDP was almost a third of the world. religious tolerance wasn't much of an issue even under Aurangazeb (the sikhs probably are the only ones who have a just case to make in this regard). destroyed indigenous education system? what education system? mughals sure as hell did not impose any compulsory educational systems on india or interfere in such detail.

however the Brits did do all you blame the mughals of. divide and rule was an official policy. social fragmentation along ethnic, linguistic and religious lines was state policy. indigenous education system was replaced by a system to churn out clerks for the crown. native industries were destroyed to make way for whatever product was fashionable in europe. the local economy was wrecked and india was taken from riches to rags.

if anything, mughals, especially Akbar, has greatly defined the tone of modern India. much of our national conscience is from ideas of this era.