Discuss Akbar’s achievements and his policy.
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Explanation:
Akbar was the strongest of India's Mughal emperors, Between 1556 to 1605 he reigned and expanded control to Mughal over most of the Indian subcontinent. To maintain his empire's cohesion, Akbar introduced policies that secured the allegiance of his realm's non-Muslim populations
- Throughout his rule, the Mughal Empire stretched from the Himalayas in the north to the Vindhyas in the south and Hindukush in the northwest to the Brahmaputra River in the east to most of the Indian subcontinent.
- He annulled Hindus ' special tax on pilgrimages in 1563 and completely abolished the jizya or annual tax paid by non-Muslims in 1564.
- He set up a new capital west of Agra in 1569 to celebrate his victory over Chittorgarh and Ranthambore, named after Gujarat in 1573 as Fatehpur Sikri.
- He doubled the size of the Mughal empire by tripling the income of the Mughal empire by reducing Hindu taxes, even though he was Muslim.