Who was Akbar ?

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Uncategorized
• Date: Feb 18,2008

It was The Greatest Moghul Emperor.
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar (جلال الدین محمد اکبر Jalāl ud-Dīn Mohammad Akbar), also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (August 15 or November 23, 1542 – October 17 or October 27, 1605) was the son of Nasiruddin Humayun whom he succeeded as ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1556 to 1605.

The greatest Moghul Emperor was Akbar. It was he who wanted both the Hindus and the Muslims to be united. He was generous to the extreme and just to the extreme. Among the Moghul Emperors, he was the true ideal.

In the beginning of his reign, Akbar had to fight to maintain control of the Moghul Empire, but after a few years, when he became very powerful, people loved and admired him so much that he did not have to fight any more

• Ashutosh Gowariker is making a film on Akbar and his wife Hira Kunwari (known more popularly as Jodha Bai) entitled Jodhaa Akbar where Akbar’s role is essayed by Hrithik Roshan and Jodha’s role is played by Aishwarya Rai. The movie is releasing worldwide in over 26 countries on February 15th, 2008.
• Akbar was portrayed in the Urdu movie Mughal-e-Azam, in which he was played by Prithviraj Kapoor.
• Akbar and Birbal were portrayed in the Urdu series Akbar-Birbal aired on Zee TV in late 1990s where Akbar’s role was essayed by Vikram Gokhale. Currently, Akbar-Birbal airs on Zee Gujarati, but dubbed in Gujarati.
• A television series, called Akbar the Great, directed by Sanjay Khan was aired on DD National in the 1990s.
• A fictionalized Akbar plays an important supporting role in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2002 novel, The Years of Rice and Salt.
• Amartya Sen uses Akbar as a prime example in his books The Argumentative Indian and Violence and Identity.
• Bertrice Small is known for incorporating historical figures as primary characters in her romance novels, and Akbar is no exception. He is a prominent figure in two of her novels, and mentioned several times in a third, which takes place after his death. In This Heart of Mine the heroine becomes Akbar’s fortieth “wife” for a time, while Wild Jasmine and Darling Jasmine centre around the life of his half-British daughter.His end was an unfortunate luck to each Persian and Indian.
• Akbar is also the AI Personality of India in the renowned game Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties

Technorati Tags: akbar, moghul emperor, akbar movies, akbar emperor