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 AKBAR’S EMPIRE
Jalal-ud-Din Mohammed Akbar (1542-1650), the greatest of the Mogul emperors of India, was a ruler only in name when he came to the throne in 1556. His Mongolian grandfather, Baber, had established a Mohammedan empore in northern India through a combination of daring, luck and military skill. But his father had been driven from the capital, Delhi, by a usurper.
With able generalship, Akbar overthrew all his rivals and embarked upon a career of conquest which, by 1562, gave him domain over the Punjab and Multan, the basin if the Ganges and Jumna Rivers, Gawlior to the south and Kabul in
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Afghanistan in the northwest. Subsequently he crossed the Narbada River into the Deccan and extended his dominion southward. By 1605, his empire contained 15 provinces, or subahs, and stretched from the Hindu Kush Mountains to the Godocari River and from Bengal across to Gujarat. |
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