Who among the following was the successor of Mughal Emperor, Babur?

Correct — D. Humayun was Babur's eldest son and took the throne in 1530, on his father's death.

The Mughal line runs Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb. Every other name offered sits further down that sequence, so only the immediate successor answers the stem.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Aurangzeb — Aurangzeb is the sixth Mughal emperor and Shah Jahan's son. He acceded in 1658, more than a century after Babur's death.
• (b)
  Shahjahan — Shah Jahan is Jahangir's son and fifth in the line, not second.
• (c)
  Jahangir — Jahangir is Akbar's son and the fourth emperor. He succeeded Akbar in 1605, not Babur.

Babur founded the empire with his victory at Panipat in 1526 and died in 1530, leaving territory that had not been consolidated.

Humayun's reign then broke in two. Sher Shah Suri beat him at Chausa in 1539 and at Kannauj in 1540 and drove him out of India.

Humayun recovered Delhi only in 1555 and died the following year. Akbar was crowned at Kalanaur in 1556, aged thirteen.

Key facts

• Humayun succeeded Babur in 1530 as the second Mughal emperor.
• Babur founded the empire after the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.
• Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun at Chausa in 1539 and drove him out of India.
• The order of the first six emperors is Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb.

Common traps

• The options are not in chronological order, so reading them as a sequence misleads.
• Humayun's rule is interrupted by the Sur interregnum, which tempts candidates to treat Sher Shah as the successor.

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