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Akbar
Series Title:Great Moghuls, The
Content:Documentary Film
Media Type:Videocassette
Release Date:1991
Audience:Higher Education
Secondary Education
Running Time:23 min.
Physical Description:one video cassette, 23 min.
Language:English
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
History
Philosophy and Religion
Subheading:Hinduism
History, Early (Before 17th Century)
Islam
Rituals and Customs
Social Conditions
Region:South Asia
Country:India



Abstract:

In Akburs great palace city at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra we discover exactly how a Great Mogul lived- how he organized his vast harem, and controlled his council. Akbor was obsessed with religion and hoped to achieve a compromise between the Hindu majority and the Muslim minority among his people. Part 3 of the elaborate six part documentary series "THE GREAT MOGHULS" that tells the dramatic story of the rise of the Moghul Empire. Over six generations, father to son, they captured, consolidated, and profoundly influenced control of the vast sub-continent of India. They ruled it with such extravagance and style that even in their own time they were known to Europeans as the Great Moghuls. Their family life was full of deceit and murder, and their deeds of treachery add up to an irresistibly exotic oriental melodrama. At the same time their exquisite art and architecture was a cultural achievement to rival that of the Medici. It includes the world’s most beautiful building - the Taj Mahal, the palace city - Fatehpur Sikri, water gardens in Kashmir, and the marble palaces in the Red Fort in Delhi, Agra and Lahore




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