Akbar, the Great, personified renaissance for the Mughal Empire.
He was the greatest of all the Mughal emperors and was
responsible for the Muslim stronghold on India. He inherited the
throne from his father Humayun when he was barely fourteen years
old. What made him a great ruler in the pages of the medieval
Indian history were his liberal policies of ruling, his
religious tolerance and visionary administrative skills. The
life of Akbar from his dawn to dusk is an intriguing story.
Prince Akbar was born on October the 14th in 1542, in a Rajput
fortress of Umerkot in the Sindh province, where Emperor Humayun
and his wife Hamida Banu Begum were taking refuge. He was named
Badruddin at birth as he was born on the night of Badr (full
moon). He was renamed as Jalal-ud-din Muhammad after his
circumcision ceremony. Akbar grew up in a small village called
Mukundpur in Rewa until he attained youth. He then moved to the
eastern parts of the Safavid Empire (modern day Afghanistan),
where he was raised by his uncle Mir