About five centuries ago, India was the centre of a thriving empire under the leadership of Akbar the Great: India produced about a quarter of the world’s GDP and the people flourished under Akbar’s ...

Photo taken on March 24, 2013 shows the interior view of Mughal Emperor Akbar's tomb in Agra, India. The tomb of Mughal Emperor Akbar, built from 1605 to 1613, is in the Mughal style combining designs ...

After calling Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi a British agent, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju has described Mughal emperor Akbar as the father of the nation in his blog. “The real ...

In a famous anecdote, the Mughal Emperor Akbar holds court with representatives of the major religions, who each take turns to make the case for their faith being the correct one. With their arguments ...

Established in 1874, the first Dastoor Meherjirana Library in Navsari is named after the first Parsi high priest of India. Having set up camp at Gopi Talav with an aim to siege the Surat Castle in ...

A part of a picture shows Jesuit priests Rodolpho Acquaviva and Antonio Monserrate (in black) attending a meeting in the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar (Photo: Wikimedia) In a two-part series, Indian ...

The most loved Mughal emperor is brought to life in this period piece by Shazi Zaman, who successfully inhabits the monarch’s restless mind, providing enough fodder to readers to take in the sights, ...

IT was Dussehra the other day, and now it will be Diwali. Both occasions, like other Hindu festivals, are celebrated in different ways in different regions of India and are also known by different ...

Rajasthan education minister Madan Dilawar on Sunday called Mughal emperor Akbar “a rapist” and said that references calling him a “great personality” should be removed from school textbooks.

I’ll never understand why we are so easily offended by creative licence. So Akbar’s wife’s name wasn’t really Jodhaa. Big deal. The lady’s biggest claim to fame was that she gave birth to the next ...