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adiana12

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Waise Sandhya and all other forum members - Akbar's greatest contribution perhaps is the concept of the Indian Nation State - at a time when India was all about riyasats - and this concept of the Indian Nation State was the concept taken forward by the Indian freedom fighters and is the cocept that we are working on preserving today!!!

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#32

Originally posted by: greeshma014
Thank u so much Sandhya..😊..very well written..👏👏..This 'sati' thing is a new information for me..it touched my heart..Great work by a Great man..👏

He placed humanism above superstition, religion and customs. That is what makes him really Great.

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#33

Originally posted by: archu-daffodil
Very well put !😃
Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful information !😃

Thanks daffodil. (Btw, this is a beautiful user name)

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#34

Originally posted by: parmarA
Thanks for the information

The pleasure is mine.😊

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Donjas

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Posted: 11 years ago

#35

Originally posted by: greeshma014
Thank u so much Sandhya..😊..very well written..👏👏..This 'sati' thing is a new information for me..it touched my heart..Great work by a Great man..👏

Regarding Akbar and Sati, please read this. I got it from the internet.

The Mughal Emperor Akbar seems to have promoted (without much success it would seem) widow remarriage amongst hindus.

But it was in the case of Sati that his measures actually ended up reforming Hinduism.

He was quite disgusted with the whole concept of Sati as is evident by one of Abul Fazl's quotation of Akbar on this subject in the Ain-i-Akbari. He had an earnest desire to put a total, unconditional ban on Sati. Unfortunately, many of the prominent Hindus at the time opposed an unconditional ban on Sati, and so Akbar had to drop the idea since he did want to take any such step without evolving a general consensus on the issue.

On the question of Forcible Sati, however, he put his foot down. Forcible Sati was banned throughout the Mughal Empire.

It is a historical fact that on at least one occasion, the Emperor Akbar was obliged to stop a case of forcible sati through his personal intervention. The facts are as follows:

Once, Akbar heard that a lady of a royal Rajput family whose husband had just died was being forced to commit Sati. As soon as he heard this news, he immediately climbed on his horse and rode to the house of the concerned Rajput family *by himself, all alone*. [His personal security guard, when they heard the emperor had gone off all on his own, galloped after him.]

He arrived at the house just in time to stop the Sati taking place; already the woman was being led out of the house for the Sati site (after having been drugged). By his sheer force of personality(he was all alone) he was able to stop the sati from taking place.

[This particular incident, of Akbar stopping the forcible Sati, is described in detail in V.A. Smith's book, 'Akbar the Great Mughal']

In book 3 of Abul Fazl's Ain-i-Akbari (chapter titled 'Happy Sayings of his Majesty'), the greatest of all the Mughal Emperors, and one of the greatest Emperors of India and indeed the world is recorded as saying:

"It is a strange comment on the magnanimity of men that they should seek their deliverance through the self sacrifice of their wives."

Credit for abolition of sati rightly goes to Raja Ram Mohan Roy who did a lot of work in raising awareness about this social evil, but his predecessor in this matter was the great mughal emperor Akbar who was to my knowledge the first Indian emperor to have officially banned forcible sati in his empire, thus contributing to the fight against for women emancipation.

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#36

Originally posted by: adianasr
Waise Sandhya and all other forum members - Akbar's greatest contribution perhaps is the concept of the Indian Nation State - at a time when India was all about riyasats - and this concept of the Indian Nation State was the concept taken forward by the Indian freedom fighters and is the cocept that we are working on preserving today!!!

Exactly Adi,

Very well said

That is what I meant by political unity in the last para. There have been kings before him like Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka who had almost the entire Hindustan under one rule. But theirs was not a pluralistic rule. Akbar ruled over diverse society that was originally split into fragments by narrow thinking by uniting it and infusing a spirit of Nationalism.

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#37

Originally posted by: lasyap3
Thank you for the info 😃

Welcome dear.

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#38

Originally posted by: Angel-
Nice thread 👍🏼 Will be very useful for people like me who know less on Akbar 😊

Thanks Angel. Actually I wanted to add his military achievements and administrative efficiency as well. But the post already got very long and I didn't want people snoozing.

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#39

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais
So glad to see you make a post after ages! 🤗

Yes. Akbar truly was THE MOST enlightened Man/Emperor that the World has seen, right after Genghis Khan!! 👏 👏 ❤️

Akbar & Jodha, in their own quiet way, shaped & defined India.

Such is the Power of Love. 😳

Thanks 🤗

First one in fact...😃. Couldn't resist as it was info on Jalal.

And what is this obsession on Genghis Khan Trips!...I also read you praise him to the skies elsewhere too. But History claims that he was a fantastic warrior, a good family and clan head and a great conqueror, but he is generally claimed cruel!. He could compete Hitler when it came to killing civilians. I haven't read much about him. But that is the general impression.😲 (Do correct me if I am wrong here.)

Jodha...I firmly believe had a very positive influence on Akbar and widened his thinking. But Akbar was the one who made History, shaped and defined India. In my pov, it is the wisdom of Akbar than the power of Love. Love was one of the major contributing factors. Akbar allowed himself to be influenced by everything good he came across in life and was open-minded. Beginning from his Khan Baba, to the friends he made, his wives...esp hk, his navratnas, his ministers and various religions and faith. I would give the credit of his greatness only to himself. Of course he has made mistakes too. Nobody would admire him for Chittor. Yet, he corrected himself and did more good.

Edited by Sandhya.A - 11 years ago

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Sandhya.A

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Posted: 11 years ago

#40

Originally posted by: sunshine_sun
Sandhya, thank u for the info 😃

Akbar has reached milestones bcz of this ⭐️
Well i dont want to be mean but i dont want cvs to portray that bcz of jodha or to win over her love he did all this ..noo plsss

It is his ENLIGHTENED MIND which made him do this.😳

Jodha must have had a positive influence on Akbar, no doubt, but yet I consider Akbar's own wisdom, and as you say enlightened mind as the reason behind all his achievements, his own ability to take the good from everyone and his own resolve to implement it inspite of knowing that his policies that were far ahead of his times and might not be welcomed by the people.

But the cvs will give equal credit if not more to Jo for the sake of drama and to satisfy trp aunties!😕 I don't mind that too, as long as they don't make jallu a complete ullu as they did in the Tasneem track.

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