Author: P N Oak
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Jagmohanraw Bhatt
Publisher: Hindi Sahitya Sadan
Year: 2006
Language: Hindi
Pages: 359
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
The Present day historians consider Akbar as a great Moghul emperor. The author of this book questions this view. He quotes innumerable incidents and deeds of the so called great emperor and proves that Akbar was the greatest rogue. A well documented work worth reading.
In the preface to his eight-volume critical study of mediaeval Muslim chronicles a well-known historian, the late Sir H M Elliot observes that the history of the Muslim era in India is an impudent and interested fraud.
This book does not claim to be a complete chronological narrative of Akbar's life or reign. It deals with Akbar's historical role with a difference. The scope of this book is limited to forcefully impressing on all concerned that Akbar's image projected through official dossiers, institutional literature and academic text books is totally unwarranted and far removed from facts.
Contents
PREFACE
The Need for Reassessment
A Chronology of Akbar's Reign
Akbar's Vicious Environment
Akbar's Barbarities
Immorality
Drink and Dope Addiction
The So-called Marriages were Blatant Abductions
Conquests
The Plunder Economy
The Chaotic Administration
Akbar's Military
Taxes
Greed
Personality and Nature
>Treachery
Hypocrisy
Famines
Fanaticism
Malpractices
Revolts Galore
Buildings
Din-e-Ilahi
Lustreless Gems
Scribes
Akbar Tomb is a Hindu Palace
Bibliography
Errata
Index
Other Books by the Author
Reviews and Reactions
An Appeal to the Reader