Humayun AD 1530-1556

After Babur had been serenely laid to rest in Kabul, it was his son, Humayun, on whose shoulders shifted the massive responsibility of Northern India, and the even more massive tribulations associated with it. Humayun was somewhat learned and scholarly, and living in Pakistan, we know that there's no place for such people in the government. Humayun was a keen astronomer. In fact he died due to a fall from the rooftop of Sher Shah’s Delhi palace in 1554. Thus Humayun ruled in India barely for ten years and died at the age of forty-eight, leaving behind Akbar then only thirteen-year-old as his heir. As a tribute to his father, Akbar later built the Humayun’s tomb in Delhi (completed in 1571), from red sandstone, that would become the precursor of future Mughal architecture.