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Was Din-i-Ilahi “a monument of Akbar’s folly”?

  • UPSC 2004
  • Akbar

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The charge that Din-i-Ilahi (more accurately Tauhid-i-Ilahi, "Divine Monotheism") was a vain, failed attempt at religion-founding goes back to colonial-era historians such as Vincent Smith, and needs to be tested against what the institution actually was and did.

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  • The Case for "Folly"
  • The Case Against "Folly": Din-i-Ilahi as Political Instrument
  • Weighing the Verdict
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