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Akbar
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Akbar – The great Mogul Emperor of India, the famous patron of religions, arts, and sciences, the most liberal of all the Mussulman sovereigns.
— H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary, (1892)
Akbar
The third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
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Lived 1542–1605, aged 63
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He turned a fragile inheritance into the largest empire in Indian history — not just by conquest, but by erasing the sectarian tax, marrying into conquered dynasties, and filling his court with talents from every faith. The Mughal who refused orthodoxy.
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Akbar inherited the throne at thirteen in 1556, his father Humayun freshly dead, and ruled first through the regent Bairam Khan. He spent decades pushing Mughal borders across the subcontinent through military campaigns, then held the realm together with a centralised administration and a policy of conciliation: he abolished the tax on non-Muslims, appointed Hindus to high civil and military posts, and sealed alliances through marriage and diplomacy. Under his rule the economy tripled, and his courts at Delhi, Agra, and Fatehpur Sikri became magnets for poets, architects, holy men, and artisan…
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The king, in his wisdom, understood the spirit of the age, and shaped his plans accordingly.
— Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3
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Both law and taxation were severe, but far less than before.
— Will Durant Our Oriental Heritage. Ch. XVI : From Alexander to Aurangzeb, § VII : Akbar the Great
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To most Hindus Akbar is one of the greatest of the Muslim emperors of India and Aurangzeb one of the worst; to many Muslims the opposite is the case.
— Gascoigne, Bamber. The Great Moghuls. London, 1976. 227, in Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a muslim, 1995. p 224
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It is highly doubtful if the Mughal period deserves the credit it has been given as a period of religious tolerance.
— Goel, S. R. et al. (1993). Hindu temples : what happened to them.
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