AKBAR:
- Akbar, the 3rd Mughal emperor.
- Also known as Akbar the Great, from his birth when his father Humayun was on the run to the magnificent empire that he ended up building; Akbar has been a legend then and now.
- 15th October 1542 is the accepted date of birth Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar. Humayun conferred on his son the name Badruddin which means full moon of religion.in early years Akbar had an unusually difficult and unpredictable outright dangerous life. Akbar became the Badshah on the sudden death of his father Humayun in January 1556.
- Akbar was only 13 when he became the emperor. He ended up ruling one of the most significant and magnificent empires Indian history has ever seen in fact at that time Mughal empire was the richest empire in the world.
- Akbar was easily the weakest contender among all other contenders for power over Delhi and the area. Akbar the Badshah of a new fledgling empire that was still to find any stability. Akbar got Adam khan executed on the spot that Akbar broke out of foster families.
- A rain where he was the undoubted boss the much-revered emperor who won everyone’s respect and fear.
- This was also a time of serious expansion of the Mughal empire. When we talk about the expansion of the Mughal Empire in its early years surely a lot of claims rightly so goes to bairam khan leading Akbar’s army.
- Akbar invested in the technical improvement of the weapons in use at the time like gun powder something his grandfather Babar, famously used against Ibrahim Lodhi at the battle of Panipat.
- Akbar also improved upon the design of the basic musket and developed lighter-weight cannon so it was easy to transport it to battle.
- A wise thing about Akbar was that he intuitively understood the nobility humiliation at surroundings.
- Akbar created an imperial administration peopled by those who cared for their local areas and were loyal to the Mughal Empire.
- Akbar was a peaceful man who avoided killing wherever he could.
- He united the whole of north India into a strong kingdom.it was under Akbar’s reign that the Mughal Empire reached its heights and glory.