Akbar's reforms and remarkable achievements - Page 5

Originally posted by: Arieltabi

Thnks a lot dear for sharing this info. Now I got it why he was called Akbar the great. My respect for him is increasing day by day. He respected people of all religion. Think so much has done so much for his people. He was really a very great king.I hope they show all this in the show too.They have already showed child marriage and slavery is next.
As I m from Bangladesh and a science student I didn't know so much about mughal empire. I haven't read much about him in history. In school mostly we read about the history of bengal, british period and pakistan period in detail. About Mughal empire. In class 6 or 7 there was a chapter about Mughal empire. They wrote about Babur to Aurangjeb one page on each emporer. So u can understand how much I know about the Mughals. And as history was my most hated subject I forgot most of it.
But this show made me interested about Akbar's life. Thnks to this forum Abhay, Kamal and all of u I m learning a lot about Akbar.

Originally posted by: Jaz713

Thank you for this! Here in the states, we're not taught much, if at all, about Akbar. I remember reading in my history book freshman year about Moghals (Yes, it was spelled like that) and their autocratic rule that was mostly unified under Akbar. And that was it - the textbook wrote Akbar off as a footnote in history so thank you!

Originally posted by: albakry

Many things they dont teach you in the States to keep you in the darkness and then believe whatever you are told

Originally posted by: Jaz713

I think as a nation, we're very open-minded and ready to face our past - we never just accept whatever is put in front of us but are taught to question it, hence people think we don't respect our elders. 😆

Actually, I wouldn't expect them to elaborate much on Akbar, America never had a connection to the India of those times. America wasn't America until the 1700s hence they had little ties to the Mughal empire.

Originally posted by: Donjas

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.

Originally posted by: Donjas

Genghis Khan was certainly a great conqueror but he has a very negative image all over the world, except Mongolia.

Regarding that report about "Green Earth". That is not a jest. It is a serious report of the contribution made by Genghis Khan to reduce carbon emissions. You can google it on the internet.