Question

State if the following statements are true or false. Give reason for your answer. Akbar's expansion policy was accepted very easily by the Rajputs

Answer 1

False

Ruling as large a territory as the Indian subcontinent

with such a diversity of people and cultures was

an extremely difficult task for any ruler to accomplish

in the Middle Ages. Quite in contrast to their

predecessors, the Mughals created an empire and

accomplished what had hitherto seemed possible for

only short periods of time. From the latter half of the

sixteenth century they expanded their kingdom from

Agra and Delhi, until in the seventeenth century they

controlled nearly all of the subcontinent. They imposed

structures of administration and ideas of governance

that outlasted their rule, leaving a political legacy that

succeeding rulers of the subcontinent could not ignore.

Today the Prime Minister of India addresses the nation

on Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red

Fort in Delhi, the residence of the Mughal emperors.