Early Life: Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar who becomes famous as Akbar, the Great was the son and successor of the Mughal emperor Humanyun and the grandson of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur who laid the foundation of Mughal empire in India. What ever Babur had conquered and possessed in India was lost by his son Humayun. By the time Akbar was about to [...]
On account of the intense interest taken and vigorous efforts made in raising magnificent and spacious buildings by Shah Jahan the Mughal period in general and his period in specific came to be known as the golden period of Indian architecture. During his period architecture reached its highest water mark in India. As observed by the noted art critic Percy [...]
Importance of the North-West Defence: The great mountain wall of the Himalayas protected the country from the North and acted as natural barriers against foreign invasions in the north. But the North-western ranges of the Himalayas, called the Sulaiman and Hindukush, being not very high and having large number of passes as the Khurram, the Gomal, the Bolan and the [...]