V So, like his grandfather before him, Akbar gained a crown while still a boy, but a crown for which he had to fight. There were rival claimants. One was…
Category: Laurence Binyon’s AKBAR
The life account of Akbar by Laurence Binyon
AKBAR – Chapter 4
IV ONE morning, late in November 1542, Humayun, encamped on the shores of a small lake with a force of some two thousand horsemen lent him by a friendly chief,…
AKBAR – Chapter 3
III BUT what of his more immediate ancestry? Once, returning from a campaign, Akbar questioned Monserrate about Sebastian, king of Portugal, who had fallen fighting against the Moors in 1578.…
AKBAR – Chapter 2
II WHAT was Akbar’s inheritance? What was the background of his mind? We have for a moment to forget the European heritage which is in our blood and to which…
AKBAR – Chapter 1
From the Editor AKBAR, as visualized by Laurence Binyon, presents himself as a brave, just and very spiritual monarch of Mogul dynasty. Of course, there are many anti-thesis to the…