AKBAR Akbar (Hindustani: [əkbər]; 14 October 1542 – 27 October 1605)‚ known as Akbar the Great‚ was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death. He was the third and greatest ruler of the Mughal Dynasty in India. Akbar succeeded his father‚ Humayun‚ under a regent‚Bairam Khan‚ who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India. A strong personality and a successful general‚ Akbar gradually enlarged the Mughal Empire to include nearly all of the Indian Subcontinent north of
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history and was the precursor to the British Indian Empire. The titles of the first of the six Mughal Emperors receive varying degrees of prominence in present-day Pakistan and India. Some favour Babur the pioneer and others his great-grandson‚ Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58)‚ builder of the Taj Mahal and other magnificent buildings. The other two prominent rulers were Akbar (r. 1556-1605) and Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707). Both rulers expanded the empire greatly and were able administrators. However‚ Akbar was
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by order of the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife‚ the Taj Mahal is the most perfect jewel of Moslem art in India and is one of the universally admired architectures of the world’s heritage. Not only see the beautiful Taj Mahal from the video‚ I also knew the history of itself and its country. A white marble tomb sums up many of the formal themes that have played through Islamic architecture. The video did talk a lot of how much Shah Jahan himself and his father loved art and
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The real specimen of architectural marvel‚ this fortress was constructed in the 15th century. The construction of this mammoth structure started during 1565 during the Great King Akbar and continued the developments up to the period of King Shah Jahan‚ the grandson of Akbar. The fort‚ in a length of 2.5 km marvelous enclosure walls‚ is built in red sandstones and encloses many monuments which are real architectural wonders. Many exquisite palaces such as the Shah Jahani Mahal‚ Jahangiri Mahal
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TaThe TajMahal (/ˈtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl/ often /ˈtɑːʒ/;[2] Hindi: ताजमहल‚ from Persian/Urdu: تاج محل "crown of palaces"‚ pronounced [ˈt̪aːdʒ mɛˈɦɛl]; also "the Taj"[3]) is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife‚ Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world’s heritage".[4] Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest example of Mughal
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among the Hindu people. (Narain.Icpsnet) Groups such as the Al – Badr and Al – Shams‚ who slaughtered Hindus in the name of Islam‚ were never found guilty of their involvement during the genocide. However they created fear in the Bengali people. (Jahan 304) Bengali people feared that another genocide would occur again soon‚ with perpetrators of the Al – Badr and Al - Shams walking among them and never found guilty of their actions and involvement during the
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Residential Schools and their Historical Effects on the Elders of Today Long before Europeans came to North America‚ Native people had a highly developed system of education. There was a great deal for Native children to learn before they could survive on their own. Native elders and parents passed on not only survival skills to their children‚ but their history‚ artistic ability‚ music‚ language‚ moral and religious values. When European missionaries began to live amongst Native people
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to his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal‚ the Taj is a befitting tribute to so romantic-a-love story and so divine an emotion that binds two souls forever. Mumtaz Mahal was a Muslim Persian Princess (her name‚ Arjumand Banu Begum before marriage) and Shah Jahan was the son of The Mughal Emperor Jehangir and grandson of Aktar The Great. He was at the age 14 that he met Mumtaz and fell in love with her. A visit to Taj Mahal‚ the mausoleum of Mumtaz‚ is a rare experience. It has become a signature monument
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gardens‚ and Mughal painting probably reached its zenith in Jahangir’s time. Jahangir married Nur Jahan‚ "Light of the World"‚ in 1611. Shortly after his death in October 1627‚ his son‚ Shah Jahan‚ succeeded to the throne. He inherited a vast and rich empire; and at mid-century this was perhaps the greatest empire in the world‚ exhibiting a degree of centralized control rarely matched before. Shah Jahan left behind an extraordinarily rich architectural legacy‚ which includes the Taj Mahal and the old
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The Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled most of the Indian subcontinent between 1526 and 1857. It consolidated the Islam culture in South Asia and in result it spread the arts of the Muslim culture and its faith. The Mughal ruling class included the Muslims despite most of the subjects in the empire being Hindu. Zahiruddin Mohammad Babur was the founder of the empire. Under his rule the dynasty remained unstable‚ and was eventually exiled
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