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No ruler took more liberties with his religion than Akbar, the greatest of the Mughals, the Muslim dynasty that dominated India between the early 16th and 18th centuries. Like Ashoka and Gandhi, Akbar constructed a religious ideology that served to hold together a diffuse polity as it fed his own soul.
It began with pragmatic policies of tolerance. Akbar had inherited the throne, at the age of 13, in 1556. In 1579 he abolished the jiziya, a tax imposed on all but the poorest non-Muslims. This was the most notable in a series of measures to recruit the Hindu majority and others to the cause of unifying and expanding his empire. He could be ruthless: his troops massacred 20,000–25,000 non-combatants after a four-month siege of Chitor, a nearly impregnable Hindu fortress in Rajasthan. But he preferred incentives to coercion. He defeated the war-like Rajputs, but gave them rank and married their princesses, who were permitted to conduct Hindu rites in the harem. The Mughal-Rajput alliance was a bulwark of his empire.
"Multicultural Akbar,” The Economist, 1999

a) Explain ONE specific political development that resulted from the conditions created by the religious policies described in the passage.

b) Explain ONE specific change to Muslim-Hindu relations that resulted from the conditions created by the religious policies described in the passage.

c) Explain ONE specific consequence of the policies described in the passage on religious minorities.

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I believe its b.) bud, sorry if its wrong

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a) A poitilical devlpmnt that came up wus the mughal-rajput alliance. This was creted by the intermarriage of the princesses of rajstan and the higher ranked Mughals. The alliance was sustained because the princesses were alowed to practice their hindu religion.

b) When akbr was king, he made life better for hindus and lowered the txes. Rather then the previos rulers high taxes for nonmuslms, he made taxes equal for all membrs of his empire.

c) The main consequence of akbrs policies was the taxes that split the non-muslims and muslms into groups and the same with the rich and the poor. These txes were called jiziya.

Sorry for bad spelling, hope it helps tho!

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