The royal adoption of Indic garb was more than a deliberate campaign to cement control – it was a sign of a deeper form of ...

and his grandson Akbar the Great, "one of the very greatest figures in history", a Muslim king who tried to make India a multi racial and multi-religious state. His aim was to achieve a Hindu ...

Often translated as “peace with all,” the term has become almost synonymous in South Asian historiography with the policies of religious pluralism promoted by the dynasty's most celebrated emperor, ...

Pushed onto the royal Mughal throne at the tender age of 14, Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, more commonly known as ‘Akbar the Great’ soon claimed imperial power and stretched the ...

“It pains us so much what they used to teach about the great men (of the country). They tried to belittle Maharana Pratap. And Akbar, who used to set up ‘meena bazaar’, was a ...

If walls could talk, 24 Akbar Road would write itself a book - of the days of the Raj, of the Burma of the 1960s and mostly ...

He not only reclaimed Mewar’s lost territories but also forced Akbar to retreat ... of India’s history and traditions, saying, “Those who fail to understand India’s great river culture ...

Maharana was just 28 years old when he faced Akbar's mighty empire ... ignorant of India's history and traditions, saying, "Those who fail to understand India's great river culture remain narrow ...

"The Great Mughals" is packed with "glittering objects ... during the reigns of the three greatest Mughal emperors: Akbar (1556-1605), his son Jahangir (1605-1627) and his grandson Shah Jahan ...

We did learn though how Akbar was a great and fair emperor ... Chhatrapati Sambhaji deserved more spotlight. History lessons missed out big time, but looks like Bollywood might just fix that!" ...