Akbar
Monarch
1542 – 1605
Who was Akbar?
Akbar, known as Akbar the Great, was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death. He was the third and greatest ruler of the Mughal Dynasty in India. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India. A strong personality and a successful general, Akbar gradually enlarged the Mughal Empire to include nearly all of the Indian Subcontinent north of the Godavari river. His power and influence, however, extended over the entire country because of Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system of administration throughout his empire and adopted a policy of conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy. In order to preserve peace and order in a religiously and culturally diverse empire, he adopted policies that won him the support of his non-Muslim subjects. Eschewing tribal bonds and Islamic state identity, Akbar strived to unite far-flung lands of his realm through loyalty, expressed through a Persianised culture, to himself as an emperor who had near-divine status.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1542
Umerkot - Also known as
- Akbar the Great
- Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
- Badr-ud-din Muhammad Akbar
- Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar I
- Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar
- Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam
- Jalāl ud-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Mariam-uz-Zamani
(1562/02/06 - 1605/10/27) - Salima Sultan Begum
(1561 - 1605/10/27) - Ruqaiya Sultan Begum
(1551/11 - )
- Mariam-uz-Zamani
- Children
- Religion
- Islam
- Din-e Ilahi
- Sufism
- Lived in
- Agra
- Died
- Oct 27, 1605
Fatehpur Sikri - Resting place
- Agra
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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