Death date: October 25, Cause of death- Dysentery, an infection in the intestines that causes bloody diarrhoea. Age at the time of death - Genghis Khan and Tamerlane are considered to be the ancestors of Akbar.
Humayun was the father of Akbar who succeeded to the throne of Delhi as ruler of the Mughal territories in the Indian subcontinent. He came to power at the age of 22 and as a result of which he was very inexperienced. In December , Humayun succeeded his father to the throne of Delhi as ruler of the Mughal territories in the Indian subcontinent.
Humayun was an inexperienced ruler when he came to power, at the age of Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun and won many Mughal territories. Humayun went to Persia and took political shelter for almost 10 years and returned 15 years later to regain the lost Mughal territories.
Humayun Regained the throne in but had no authority in his kingdom. Humayun further expanded his Mughal territories and he then met with an accident and passed away in leaving a substantial legacy for his son, Akbar. At 13 years of age, Akbar was made the governor of the Punjab region. Humayun had barely established his authority as an emperor when he died in which led to many other rulers seeing it as a possibility to capture the Mughal dynasty.
As a result of which many governors of the Mughal empire lost several important places. Delhi was also captured by Hemu, a Hindu minister who claimed the throne for himself.
She is also known as Mariam-uz-Zamani. Akbar Son : Akbar had five sons from different wives. Both of them died at a young age for an unknown reason. Out of the three sons, Prince Salim or Jahangir succeeded Akbar as the fourth emperor of the Mughal dynasty.
He grappled with the horrors of suttee two hundred years before Bentinck abolished it. He was the patron of learning and the arts. His justice knew no distinction of caste or creed or colour. Such was the man, who, while he lived, united India in mutual service. Reprints and Permissions. Akbar, the Great Mughal. Nature , — Download citation. Issue Date : 21 November Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:.
Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Akbar also formed powerful matrimonial alliances. When he married Hindu princesses—including Jodha Bai, the eldest daughter of the house of Jaipur, as well princesses of Bikaner and Jaisalmer—their fathers and brothers became members of his court and were elevated to the same status as his Muslim fathers- and brothers-in-law.
While marrying off the daughters of conquered Hindu leaders to Muslim royalty was not a new practice, it had always been viewed as a humiliation. In Akbar revised his tax system, separating revenue collection from military administration. Each subah , or governor, was responsible for maintaining order in his region, while a separate tax collector collected property taxes and sent them to the capital. This created checks and balances in each region since the individuals with the money had no troops, and the troops had no money, and all were dependent on the central government.
The central government then doled out fixed salaries to both military and civilian personnel according to rank. Akbar was religiously curious. He regularly participated in the festivals of other faiths, and in in Fatehpur Sikri—a walled city that Akbar had designed in the Persian style—he built a temple ibadat-khana where he frequently hosted scholars from other religions, including Hindus, Zoroastrians, Christians, yogis, and Muslims of other sects.
He allowed the Jesuits to construct a church at Agra and discouraged the slaughter of cattle out of respect for Hindu custom. Not everyone appreciated these forays into multiculturalism, however, and many called him a heretic.
In , a mazhar , or declaration, was issued that granted Akbar the authority to interpret religious law, superseding the authority of the mullahs. The faith centered around Akbar as a prophet or spiritual leader, but it did not procure many converts and died with Akbar. Unlike his father, Humayun, and grandfather Babur, Akbar was not a poet or diarist, and many have speculated that he was illiterate. Nonetheless, he appreciated the arts, culture and intellectual discourse, and cultivated them throughout the empire.
Akbar is known for ushering in the Mughal style of architecture, which combined elements of Islamic, Persian and Hindu design, and sponsored some of the best and brightest minds of the era—including poets, musicians, artists, philosophers and engineers—in his courts at Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
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