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Akbar The Great Mughal

by Ira Mukhoty
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789389836042
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rupa Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 624
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 831 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

Abu'l Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar the third Mughal emperor is widely regarded as one of the greatest rulers in India's history. During his reign the Mughal Empire was one of the wealthiest in the world and covered much of the Indian subcontinent. Although there are dozens of books on the empire there are surprisingly few full-length accounts of its most remarkable emperor with the last major study having been published over two decades ago. In Akbar: The Great Mughal this outstanding sovereign finally gets his due and the reader gets the full measure of his extraordinary life. Akbar was born on 15 October 1542 and after a harrowing childhood and a tumultuous struggle for succession following the death of his father Humayun became emperor at the age of thirteen. He then ruled for nearly fifty years and over the course of his reign established an empire that would be hailed as singular both in its own time and for posterity. In this book acclaimed writer Ira Mukhoty covers Akbar's life and times in lavish illuminating detail. The product of years of reading research and study the biography looks in great detail at every aspect of this exceptional ruler--his ambitions mistakes bravery military genius empathy for his subjects and path-breaking efforts to reform the governance of his empire. It delves deep into his open-mindedness his reverence towards all religions his efforts towards the emancipation of women his abolishing of slavery and the religious tax--jiziya--and other acts that showed his statesmanship and humanity. The biography uses recent ground-breaking work by art historians to examine Akbar's unending curiosity about the world around him and the role the ateliers played in the succession struggle between him and his heir Prince Salim. Beautifully written hugely well-informed and thoroughly grounded in scholarship this monumental biography captures the grandeur vitality and genius of the Great Mughal.

Mukhoty, Ira: - Ira Mukhoty is the author of Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire and Heroines: Powerful Indian Women in Myth and History. Living in one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, she developed an interest in the evolution of mythology and history, the erasure of women from these histories, and the continuing relevance this has on the status of women in India. She writes rigorously researched narrative histories that are accessible to the lay reader. She lives in Gurgaon with her husband and two daughters.

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