AKBAR THE GREAT-1

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Babar ruled for a brief  period, until only 1530, and was succeeded by his son Humayun.

Humayun  gave the Mughal empire, its first distinctive features. But it is Humayun's son, Akbar the Great, who is conventionally described as the glory of the empire.

It is worth stating that it was Akbar, who gave the Mughal Empire its long life, which is deemed to be India’s destiny, a pre-written one, for twin reasons, both being equally telling and logical.

The first one is that Akbar owed the throne to his since deceased father Humayun , who himself owed his comeback to providence, after he had been forced to go on an exile by Sher Shah Suri,  the founder of the short-lived Pashtun Suri kingdom in the Indian subcontinent, with its capital at Delhi.

The second one is that Akbar’s misfortune about Humayu’s premature death when Akbar was still too young, was more than made up by an extremely loyal commander Bairam Khan.

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