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Title: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920
Subjects: Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 Mogul Empire India -- History 1526-1765
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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scattered his men and killed him. He sent his head to mein Allahabad. Although this event was a cause of anger inthe mind of the late King (Akbar), in the end it enabledme to proceed without disturbance of mind to kiss thfthreshold of my fathers palace, and by degrees the resent-ment of the King was cleared away. ^ The cynical effrontery of that passage would be difficuHlto beat. The blasphemous ascription of success in thijtreacherous murder to the grace of God is particularly dis!gusting, while the avowed indifference to Akbars feelingj unworthy place, where it lay The explanations offered in tk for a long time (Blochmann, Am, Madsir-i Jahdnglr, E. & D., vij vol. i, p. xxv). Probably the 442-4, agree with those given b;; quotation is from the Madsiru-l Jahangir, but are expressed at f Vmard. Elphinstone and some little more length. The autho other authors erroneously write seems to deny that Salim struc Nar Singh for Bir Singh. coins in his own name.1 Jahangir, R. B., i, 24, 25.
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ABU-L FAZL PRINCE SALIM; DEATH OF AKBAR 307 !proves the insincerity of the writers frequent references toliis revered father *. j The crime made Akbar furious with rage and distracted Escapewith grief. For three days he abstained from appearing in ginrrh thepublic audience, a dangerous omission in a country where murderer.t he non-appearance of the sovereign for a single day mightbe the signal for a revolution. Urgent orders were sent out^o hunt down and slay the chief who had presumed to kill(the emperors friend. Akbar fell into the greatest con-ceivable passion when he learned that Bir Singh had escapedhrough the territories of the Raja of Gwalior, and he wasiiuch puzzled by conflicting reports w^hich east the blamefor the failure of the pursuit now on one person, and now)n another. At last, about three months after the murder,le called for Asad Beg (November, 1602) and put him onIpecial duty to ascertain who was guilty. In due course,(•resumably towards the end of 1602. Asad Beg

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