As a result of Sulh-I kul, all Muslims and non-Muslims had the same rights. Akbar was mostly tolerant within the Mughal Empire, however this was not always the case as he expanded his empire.
In this excerpt from ‘A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India’, the scholar and columnist provides a deeper understanding of how the sixth Mughal emperor’s legacy is debated ...
For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian ...