. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . all number of those sovereigns who, THE MOHAMMEDAN AND MUGHAL EMPIRES 27 [1556-160S ] not fearing to wield the sword, have used their power as a protection forreligious freedom and the freedom of thought. His efforts to protect hissubjects from discrhninating injustices and from many a hardship — notablythe burning of widows (suttee or sati) — brought him the title from posterity,the Guardian of Mankind; a more gloriou
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . all number of those sovereigns who, THE MOHAMMEDAN AND MUGHAL EMPIRES 27 [1556-160S ] not fearing to wield the sword, have used their power as a protection forreligious freedom and the freedom of thought. His efforts to protect hissubjects from discrhninating injustices and from many a hardship — notablythe burning of widows (suttee or sati) — brought him the title from posterity,the Guardian of Mankind; a more glorious title never was devised.^^ W. Crooke thus estimates this monarch: The life of Akbar is the historyof India during his long reign of forty-nine years, and his personality standshigh, even when compared with his great contemporaries — Elizabeth ofEngland and Pliilip II of Spain. In his courage and strength, his love ofsport, and knightly exercises, he was curiously like another notable princeof the same age — Henry IV of Navarre. He was only thirteen when, withthe aid of the gallant Bairam Khan, he crumpled up the Afghan host, onthe historic field of Tomb of Akbar at Seccndba When his rule was thus established, the later life of Akbar falls, as Keenehas shown, into three periods: During the first, which lasted about fifteenyears, he was much occupied with war, field sports, and building; and themen by whom he was ultimately influenced were stiU at tliat time young,like himself. Opinions were forming; territorial and administrative opera-tions were in hand. About 1576 began a second period, marked by thearrival of certain Shiahs and other persons of heretical opinions from Persia,and the growth of their influence over Akbar. At the same time the emperor,now in the maturity of his intellect, turned his attention to the Hindus, andto the amelioration and establishing of the revenue system, by which theywere so much affected. This period lasted for about fifteen y
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