History of India . ar, a few monthslater, secured the allegiance of the Rajputs. The rajasagreed to acclaim a power which they foimd as irre-sistible as it was just and tolerant. Akbar cementedthe good feeling by marrying another princess, daugh-ter of the raja of Bikanir, and henceforward he couldrely on the loyalty of the most splendid soldiery inIndia. In his future campaigns, as in those of his sonand grandson, there were always brave Hindus to thefore, and the names of Bhagvan Das, Man Singh, andTodar Mai are famous in the annals of Moghul war-fare and administration. Bhagvan Das and Man
History of India . ar, a few monthslater, secured the allegiance of the Rajputs. The rajasagreed to acclaim a power which they foimd as irre-sistible as it was just and tolerant. Akbar cementedthe good feeling by marrying another princess, daugh-ter of the raja of Bikanir, and henceforward he couldrely on the loyalty of the most splendid soldiery inIndia. In his future campaigns, as in those of his sonand grandson, there were always brave Hindus to thefore, and the names of Bhagvan Das, Man Singh, andTodar Mai are famous in the annals of Moghul war-fare and administration. Bhagvan Das and Man Singhnot only distinguished themselves in the wearisome andreiterated campaigns which the unsettled state of Guja-rat compelled Akbar to undertake for a space of twentyyears, but were even trusted by him in 1578 to wage 24 AKBAE THE GREAT war upon the ever hostile rana of Udaipur, Rajputagainst Rajput. They justified his confidence, drovethe rana to the Indus, and captured his strongholdsof Groganda and T CHAPTER II AKBAKS EEFOEMS THE DIVINE PAITH 1566-1605 HIS assimilation of the Hindu chiefs was the most-?- conspicuous feature of Atbars reign. His warswere like other Indian wars, only mitigated by hissovereign quahty of mercy to those who submitted, andby his scrupulous care that the peasants should notsuffer by the passage of his troops. The empire wasgradually extended till it stretched from Kandaharto the Bay of Bengal, and included the whole of Hin-dustan down to the Narbada. But the remarkablepoints about this expansion to the old limits of Ala-ad-dins reahn were, first, that it was done with the willinghelp of the Hindu princes, and, secondly, that expan-sion went hand in hand with orderly was a new thing in Indian government, forhitherto the local officials had done pretty much as itpleased them, and the central authority had seldominterfered so long as the revenue did not suffer. Akbarallowed no oppression by his lieutenants, and
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