Of all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal ...
An ambitious portrait of Akbar that plays with historical facts to reimagine, retell, and reveal the human side of the emperor The most loved Mughal emperor is brought to life in this period piece by ...
he is once again sharing screen space with Ash in Jodha-Akbar, a film on the untold love story between Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar and his young Rajput wife Jodhabai. The historical epic ...
Prof Habib, Prof Moosvi and Ms Safvi released the book 'Allahu Akbar' at the event. The Centre of Advanced Study (CAS), Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) observed the 477th birth ...
'I have only this to say to those who talk about Mewar rulers and Akbar's brutality -- do you expect a king to not expand his kingdom?' 'You have entire cities named after Muslim rulers. It's time our ...
Shazi Zaman, author of an upcoming Hindi novel on Akbar, takes us on a walking tour of some of the sites associated with the Mughal emperor in Delhi. We are inside the stony ramparts of Purana Qila, ...
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Akbar the Jogi

There is a lore told by Hindu yogis about Akbar, also documented in the Bhavisya Purana. Long ago, there was a very holy man living in Prayagraj (greatest of river confluences), leading a simple life ...
I’ll never understand why we are so easily offended by creative licence. So Akbar’s wife’s name wasn’t really Jodhaa. Big deal. The lady’s biggest claim to fame was that she gave birth to the next ...
New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) 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 of the dramatic ups and downs of the Congress that ...