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Do you think that akbar’s Rajput policy was a conscious attempt to incorporate the Indian ruling elite with the Mughal Imperial System?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Akbar

Taken as a whole rather than through any single alliance or battle, Akbar's Rajput policy shows too much internal consistency across three decades and multiple instruments to be read as accidental or merely reactive.

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