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“Akbar wished to assert his strong belief in God, but his concept of the way God is to be worshipped was independent of either orthodox Islam or Hinduism.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Akbar

The quotation separates two things that are easy to conflate — Akbar's sincerity of personal faith in a single God, which was never really in doubt, from the specific manner in which he chose to express that faith, which fit comfortably into neither the orthodox Islamic ritual he was raised in nor the Hindu practice…

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  • Evidence of Genuine Personal Devotion, Not Mere Statecraft
  • Breaking with Orthodox Islamic Ritual
  • Not a Turn Toward Hindu Orthodoxy Either
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