Originally posted by: katana
I feel akbar is the best strong king in Mughal empire. Shahjahan is not broad minded like Akbar, and he killed mercilessly all the male members of the family for strong kingship.
Is there any post about other Mughals kings other than Akbar & jahangir in our forum?
Yes but akbar also killed his cousins that was tradition than to prevent bhagawat then
like babar's brother tried to kill him, humayun's brothers tried to kill him, so akbar was scared of such rebellion and killed his cousins, shah jahna killed his cousins and brothers, aurangzeb killed his brothers and many nephews etc this continued every generation. Babar defeated and killed his brother, humayun blinded his brother after defeat and one brother died in battle field.
The only one who did not wash his hand in brothers, cousins and nephews blood is jehangir. But he blinded his son like humayun.
This was tradition in many royal family like england royal family once elder brother came on throne he killed his other brothers and their kids.
You cannot rule in peace if you are always tensed when your brothers and nephews will try and kill you and your kids for throne. Humayun did that error and paid dearly all life. Jehangir also forgave khusrau thrice rebellion and would have been in constant civil war if he had not punished khusrau.So everyone will be scared seeing humayun condition whether to forgive family because their and their children life always at risk.
Akbar forgave Sharifuddin so many rebellion, few murder attempts, even murder attempts on salim who was a child but if someone will never change and keep trying to kill you and your kids why should you not punish them? Should you punish them after your children die after such attempts r you die?? So i think in many cases what they did was right. Look at humayun he forgave every time what did his brothers do joined hands with sher shah suri and defeated him, his daughter kidnapped and never returned by sher shah suri, his family running one place to another, akbar and bakshi taken hostage, akbar tied to kabul fort.
Edited by myviewprem - 11 years ago