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Akbar
- AkbarOn the 15th of October 1542, Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar drew his first breath inside the Rajput Fortress of Amarkot. His parents had fled westward after…
- Tomb of Mariam-uz-ZamaniHarkha Bai entered the Mughal court as a Rajput princess, the eldest daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amer. She married Emperor Akbar in 1562 CE to seal an…
- RazmnamaIn 1574, Emperor Akbar opened a translation house called the Maktab Khana within his new capital at Fatehpur Sikri. This institution served as the engine for…
- Nizamuddin AhmadKhwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad Bakshi was born in 1551 and died in 1621 or 1030 AH. He served as Akbar's Mir Bakhshi, a high-ranking official responsible for…
- HumayunOn the 26th of December 1530, Humayun succeeded his father Babur to the throne of Delhi as ruler of the Mughal territories in the Indian subcontinent.
- Ain-i-AkbariAbu'l Fazl sat before a completed chronicle in 1596, the final year of his work on the Ain-i-Akbari. This document formed Volume III of the larger Akbarnama…
- Akbar's tombOn the 26th of October 1605, Akbar died from dysentery after a brief illness. His son Jahangir immediately began planning a mausoleum to honor his father.
- AkbarnamaEmperor Akbar ordered the creation of his official chronicle in the early 1590s. Court historian Abul Fazl accepted this task with a clear mandate to…
- Din-i IlahiIn 1582, the Mughal emperor Akbar established a new spiritual movement called Dīn-i Ilāhī. This event followed years of intense religious debate held at the…
- Humayun's TombEmpress Bega Begum ordered the construction of Humayun's tomb in 1558, shortly after her husband died on the 27th of January 1556.
- Ibadat KhanaIn 1575, the Mughal Emperor Akbar ordered a new hall built at Fatehpur Sikri. This structure was named the Ibādat Khāna or House of Worship.
- Hamida Banu BegumHamida Banu Begum entered the world in 1527 within a family of Persian descent. Her father Shaikh Ali Akbar Jami served as a preceptor to Prince Hindal…
- Agra FortIn 1526, Babur stayed in the palace of Ibrahim Lodi after winning the First Battle of Panipat. He later built a baoli step well within the existing structure.
- Fatehpur SikriEmperor Akbar established the capital of the Mughal Empire in 1571 at a place called Sikri. This decision followed the birth of his son Jahangir in the…
- Salim ChishtiSheikh Salim Chishti lived from 1478 to 1572. He was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order during the Mughal Empire in India.