Akbar (Makers of the Muslim world)

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Jalal ad-Din Akbar (1542–1605) was the third ruler of the Mughal dynasty of India. In some important respects, however, he can be regarded as the first. His grandfather, Zahir ad-Din Babur (1483–1530), had invaded the country in 1526 from Kabul, and during the four years that were left to him made the first conquests here. In much of northwestern and northern India power was then in the hands of an immigrant Afghan (“Pathan”) clan called the Lodis. Having seized the throne in 1451, these were the last of a long sequence of Muslim kings ruling from Delhi since the beginning of the thirteenth century – the Sultans of Delhi. Babur defeated the Indo-Afghan ruler Ibrahim Lodi (1517–1526) but hardly left a permanent mark in the country. He considered India “a country of few charms,” and made his conquests almost by default, after his triple failure to hold Samarqand against more powerful Uzbek rivals. By the time he invaded India, Babur had started to think of Kabul as his home base.At his own request, he was taken back to Kabul after his death in Agra in 1530, to be interred in a modest, uncovered grave in the garden on the western slopes of a mountain that became known as “Babur’s Garden.”

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