who gave toughest resistance to akbar in dream
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He created a powerful military system and instituted effective political and social reforms. By abolishing the sectarian tax on non-Muslims and appointing them to high civil and military posts, he was the first Mughal ruler to win the trust and loyalty of the native subjects.
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Ira Mukhoty’s new biography of the great Mughal emperor debunks the myths and legends about him
Do we need yet another book on a great Mughal? When I was sent the new biography Akbar: The Great Mughal by historian Ira Mukhoty, that is exactly what I wondered. But as I looked deeper, I realized that there had been no recent biographies of Akbar for lay readers, apart from Manimugdha Sharma’s Allahu Akbar: Understanding The Great Mughal In Today’s India, which only came out in October last year. Most of what I knew about him was actually gleaned from a motley collection of movies, school textbooks and Amar Chitra Katha comics. Most of it
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Ira Mukhoty; and (above) Akbar in conversation with Jesuit missionaries, in a 16th century Mughal School miniature painting.
Why Akbar wasn’t always a beacon of tolerance
6 min read . 31 May 2020Kavitha Rao
Ira Mukhoty’s new biography of the great Mughal emperor debunks the myths and legends about him
Do we need yet another book on a great Mughal? When I was sent the new biography Akbar: The Great Mughal by historian Ira Mukhoty, that is exactly what I wondered. But as I looked deeper, I realized that there had been no recent biographies of Akbar for lay readers, apart from Manimugdha Sharma’s Allahu Akbar: Understanding The Great Mughal In Today’s India, which only came out in October last year. Most of what I knew about him was actually gleaned from a motley collection of movies, school textbooks and Amar Chitra Katha comics. Most of it was also inaccurate.
Mukhoty’s experience was similar. “We tend to leave biographies to academics in India," she says in a phone interview. “There is wonderful work being done on Akbar by art historians and scholars but there are few readable popular histories. Now that history is being manipulated left, right and centre, I think it was important to present a true picture and have this man as part of the public narrative."
Mukhoty is an accidental historian. She studied the sciences at Cambridge and was busy bringing up her two girls when she noticed the lack of engaging history books. “I was looking for women role models for them and all the historical books were so dull," she says. Out of this grew Mukhoty’s 2017 book, Heroines: Powerful Indian Women Of Myth And History, a history of mythical and real Indian women ranging from Draupadi and Meerabai to Razia Sultan and Hazrat Mahal. Her second book, Daughters Of The Sun: Empresses, Queens And Begums Of The Mughal Empire, in 2018, explored the hidden world of Mughal women, most of whom are not mentioned in the records. For both books, Mukhoty had to dig deep because so little had been written on or by women.
What: Mukhoty intended Akbar to appeal to a general audience but she does not always succeed in this. Unlike her previous books, she had a problem of plenty with Akbar. Sometimes, the multiplicity of sources and anecdotes—and the detail she goes into—may be overwhelming for the lay reader. Akbar is 500 pages long and it flags occasionally.
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