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Advertisement Type to search INDIA TODAY GROUP India Today Aaj Tak Business Today Men's Health Wonder Woman Cosmopolitan Oye! 104.8FM Bag it Today News Notification Quiz Career Options Career Match Government Jobs Current Affairs Online Courses TAGS: Jodha Bai Akbar Mughal India Afghanistan Agra Humayun RELATED STORIES Happy Birthday Mira Nair: 10 must know facts about the Indian filmmaker A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's 84th birth anniversary: Some of his influential quotes Over eight lakh chemists go on strike in India: List of some major strikes in India Bahadur Shah I's 372nd birth anniversary: Some interesting facts that you must know October 14 marks World Standards Day: Find out how the world runs on uniform standards Story INDIATODAY.IN NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15, 2015 | UPDATED 12:49 IST Akbar the Great's 473rd birth anniversary: All about the greatest Mughal Akbar the Great was born on this day 473 years ago. Do you know that he was only 13 when he ascended the throne after his father, Humayun's death. He ruled under the regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand the Mughal dynasty in India. On his 473rd birth anniversary today, let's grab some facts about the greatest king history has ever had. Some facts on Jalal uddin Muhammad Akbar: Akbar was born as Abu'lFath Jalal uddin Muhammad Akbar He spent his youth learning to hunt, run, and fight, which made him a daring, powerful and a brave warrior Akbar was dyslexic and never wanted to read or write. He, however, liked the company of writers, musicians, painters and scholars like great musician Tansen and a noble man Birbal Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, in 1556. The 13yearold Akbar was enthroned by Bairam Khan and was proclaimed Shehanshah. Since Akbar was only a teenager, Bairam Khan ruled on his behalf until he came of age Akbar was given the nickname 'the Great' because of his many accomplishments, among which was his record of unbeaten military campaigns that established the Mughal rule in the Indian subcontinent Mughal firearms in the time of Akbar came to be far superior It is pretty well known that Akbar was tolerant towards all religions. He had over 25 wives and most of them belonged to other religions The most notable of his wives was Jodha Bai, who was a Jaipur princess In 1563, Akbar cancelled the law to collect tax from Hindu pilgrims if they visited their holy places. He had a liberal attitude towards all religions. This liberal attitude also helped him a lot in the expansion of his territory After the northern India, Akbar began expansion of his territorial boundary to the southern part of India. Such was the might of his empire that it stretched from Sindh in the western part of India to Bengal in the eastern part of India and from present day Afghanistan to the Indian Railways is hiring, apply now TISS notifies recruitment: Apply by October 15 State Bank of India Recruitment 2015: Apply now! OPaL jobs: Apply for 331 various posts National Health Mission is hiring! Apply now more... Government Jobs Name Email Id Mobile No Register for more updates Q MINIMUM PAY IN THE IAS SUPERTIME PAYSCALE Q i m around thirty years general category am i suitable for any gov gob done bca+mca Click here to know the answers Ask a question more... Online Courses STAY CONNECTED WITH US ON Ask your query here... 160 out of 160 characters GK & Current Affairs Listicles: Microfacts Akbar the Great AAj Tak TV anchoring one day workshop Become a HTML5 Developer Become an online Content Writer

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Akbar the Great's 473rd birth anniversary:All about the greatest Mughal

Akbar the Great was born on this day 473 years ago. Do you know that he was only 13 when heascended the throne after his father, Humayun's death. He ruled under the regent, Bairam Khan,who helped the young emperor expand the Mughal dynasty in India. On his 473rd birthanniversary today, let's grab some facts about the greatest king history has ever had.

Some facts on Jalal uddin Muhammad Akbar:

Akbar was born as Abu'lFath Jalal uddin Muhammad Akbar

He spent his youth learning to hunt, run, and fight, which made him a daring, powerful anda brave warrior

Akbar was dyslexic and never wanted to read or write. He, however, liked the company ofwriters, musicians, painters and scholars like great musician Tansen and a noble manBirbal

Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, in 1556. The 13yearold Akbar was enthroned byBairam Khan and was proclaimed Shehanshah. Since Akbar was only a teenager, BairamKhan ruled on his behalf until he came of age

Akbar was given the nickname 'the Great' because of his many accomplishments, amongwhich was his record of unbeaten military campaigns that established the Mughal rule inthe Indian subcontinent

Mughal firearms in the time of Akbar came to be far superior

It is pretty well known that Akbar was tolerant towards all religions. He had over 25 wivesand most of them belonged to other religions

The most notable of his wives was Jodha Bai, who was a Jaipur princess

In 1563, Akbar cancelled the law to collect tax from Hindu pilgrims if they visited their holyplaces. He had a liberal attitude towards all religions. This liberal attitude also helped him alot in the expansion of his territory

After the northern India, Akbar began expansion of his territorial boundary to the southernpart of India. Such was the might of his empire that it stretched from Sindh in the westernpart of India to Bengal in the eastern part of India and from present day Afghanistan to the

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Akbar had 9 ministers in his court, who were called his Navratnas or '9 gems'

The Akbarnama which means 'Book of Akbar', is an official biographical account of Akbar.The book includes vivid and detailed descriptions of his life and times. The work wascommissioned by Akbar, and written by Abul Fazl, one of the Nine Jewels

It is stated that the book took seven years to be completed and the original manuscriptscontained a number of paintings supporting the texts

Akbar fell ill on October 3, 1605 with an attack of dysentery. He is believed to have died onOctober 27, 1605

His body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra.

 

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