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Title: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920
Subjects: Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 Mogul Empire India -- History 1526-1765
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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e authorities, as usual, Delhi, 1876, pp. 193, 194), and differ about the exact dates. Mr. by Beveridge (A. N., i, 656 ».). Beveridge (A. N., i, 654 n.) shows For the admiral see Bibliography, good reason for accepting Friday, post. January 24, as the date of Huma- - Kalanaur, now a small town yuns accident. The statement with about 5,000 inhabitants, is of Abu-1 Fazl that some drops fifteen miles west from Gurdaspur of blood issued from his right town. It was the chief place in ear (ibid., p. 657) indicates that the neighbourhood from the the fatal injury presumably was fourteenth to the sixteenth cen- fracture of the* base of the skull. tury (/. G., 1908, s. v.). The The Sher Mandal tower, near the ancient kings of Lahore used to Kila Kulma, to the south of be enthroned there, and the town modern Delhi, is fully described was then of large size. Its glory by Carr Stephen (The Archaeology had departed when Monserrate and Monumental Remains of was there with Akbar in 1581, but ■-^1
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ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE 31 Delhi on February 11, three days before the enthronementat Kalanaur.i The Protector was obhged to take the strong step ofagain arresting Shah Abu-1 Maall for contumacious refusalto obey promptly a summons to the coronation darbar held on the third day after the enthronement ceremony.^ The India of 1556, when young Akbar preferred his formal India iiclaim to the sovereignty of Hindostan, was a distracted and i^^^-ill-governed land. Its economic condition was even worsethan the political, many of its fairest provinces, includingDelhi and Agra, being then desolated by an appallingfamine caused by widespread failure of the rains combinedwith the devastation wrought by two years of warfare.The enthronement of the boy Padshah simply registereda claim to sovereignty. When he went through the ceremonyat Kalanaur he could not be said to possess any definitekingdom. The small army under the command of BairamKhan merely had a precarious hold by force on certaindistrict

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