Okay this is brilliant! So Jalal's opinions on religion and tolerance are ascribed to his marriage with Jodha and the influence of her thinking on his. That could explain why the Creatives are making Jodha verbalise so much her perspective on religion and her liking to read about all religions etc. Its not just her talkativeness, its the expression of an opinion that helps shape the opinions of Akbar, hence the speeches from Jodha!
Just one other question: Did this banishment of the clerics yesterday actually end this issue or did it continue to fester till he much later started this religion called Deen-Ilahi? I am just wondering if he really managed to quell this issue or like Henry the Eighth he too had to think of an alternate religion as a solution to the continuing Muslim-Hindu tension that stayed festering?
And yes, I am a Tamilian ... a TamBram!😆😆😆
The banishment of clerics didn't quell this.shariiuddin became the power centre from where these dissents continued..Initially, sharifuddin conducted this nefarious activity behind the veil ,later it was all out war..Akbar pardoned sharifuddin three times for his revolt against throne to appease his step-sister Bakshi Bano who was the daughter of Haji begum (humayun's first wife)..Din-i-illahi was not basically a religion for the masses but for the courtiers who had to live with multitudes of religions at court..he didn't discourage common people from coming in to its fold but this was mainly aimed at the court..the introduction of din-i-illahi also brought in with it a slew of protests..Khutbah-the declaration on the pulpit of the mosque which makes a person , an emperor is usually read by the clerics..it is read every year on the Id-ul-Zuha day thereafter..akbar introduced the new religion(though he was careful not to call it a religion) on the pulpit of fatehpur sikri reading the kutbah himself and ending it with Allah-uh-Akbar..This gave the clerics the implication that akbar was proclaiming himself to be god..Though akbar brought nearly the entire subcontinent under the mughal umbrella ,his reign was also famous for the frequent dissent of the clerics..
A TamBram, manasi😊...me too the same but with a slight difference belonging to palghat branch.
Wow...so much knowledge you guys have got,that was an interesting read!!
Great to meet fellow TamBrams!!! We belong to Palakkad too!😛
Thanks baubles..and namaskkaram to a fellow palghatian..😃once you are passionate about something you do it in full measure,if interested I will continue giving small titbits which would make the episodes interesting