may be this is time... - Page 2

Originally posted by: lashy

popular villain sells more than young-looking villain you see...😆

Mushkil se RT 23 lagta hai..

in so many scenes, he ends up looking like a an 18-20 year old...

Some of the reforms of Akbar are as follows and I have highlighted the reform on child marriage that he made.

(1) He abolished the Pilgrim Tax in 1563 with a view to winning over the good-will of the Hindus. The Muslims opposed this act of the Emperor on the ground that it involved a huge loss to the royal treasury. Another argument was that as the Hindus had been paying the tax for a long time, the same was not inequitable. "An old tax is no tax". Moreover, it was a tax on the "superstitions of the people." Akbar preferred to lose annually a sum of Rupees one crore in order to win over the goodwill of the Hindus.

(2) The next reform was the abolition of Jizya which was a tax on the "conscientious faith of any man." This measure went a long way in removing the deep-rooted bitterness in the minds of the Hindus against the Muslim rulers.

(3) Akbar tried to remove the custom of Sati from the Hindus in general and the Rajputs in particular. Special inspectors were appointed to keep a watch on the voluntary or forced Sati. No woman was to be burnt against her will (1590-91).

(4) Akbar discouraged child-marriages and the system of female infanticide. A law was made that no boy below the age of 16 and no girl below the age of 14 was to be married. Consent of the bride and bridegroom was made necessary for the performance of a marriage. By another law, it was provided that no son or daughter of a nobleman could be married without the ascertainment of their age by an official of the police.

Two officers called Turbegs were appointed in big towns to inquire into the circumstances of the bride and bridegroom. The Emperor took a tax from both the parties according to their status. He disapproved the system of high dowries. He also condemned polygamy on the ground that it ruined the health, happiness and tranquillity of mind of a person. Voluntary intercommunal marriages were encouraged. If a Hindu was converted to Islam in his childhood, he was given the option to become a Hindu again if he so desired.

(5) Akbar abolished the system of the enslavement of the wives and children of the conquered people. All persons in India were to be free.

(6) Certain regulations were made for the branding of horses. Horses belonging to the state were branded with the royal mark or number. Thus, the Chera and Dagh system of Ala- ud-Din Khilji was reintroduced.

The horses belonging to different stables were distinguished by their price in numerals. A new mark was stamped if the horses were enlisted into higher grades. These reforms created resentment among the nobles as they could not resort to the practice of fraudulent musters.

(7) The Jagir system was abolished and all Jagirs were converted into Crownlands. The state became the owner of those lands and collected the revenues directly. The officers were to be paid salaries.

(8) Mir Arz was appointed to receive petition from the public and submit them to the Emperor.

(9) Trial by ordeal was abolished.

(10) A record office was set up and the proceedings of the court were to be recorded.

(11) Important changes were made in the organisation of the royal mint. Abdul Samad was appointed the mint master. Different officials were put incharge of the provincial mints of Bengal, Lahore, Jaunpur, Gujarat and Patna. Pure gold was used for coins and those were of standard weight.