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Akbar remembered on birth anniversary in Agra
Saturday, October 16, 2010 05:06:55 PM,
IANS
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Agra:
Umang, a group of journalism students, Saturday celebrated Mughal
emperor Akbar's 468th birth anniversary by cutting a cake at the
Braj Mandal Heritage Conservation Society hall here - the land
that was once called Akbarabad.
"Shah Jahan at the time of his accession to the throne named Agra
as Akbarabad, but after a while it was back again to Agra. It is a
great pity that despite such magnificent buildings like Sikandra,
Fatehpur Sikri and the Agra Fort, Akbar is not so popular in the
area compared to Shah Jahan," said eminent historian Ramesh
Chandra Sharma, adding that Akbar's seminal concepts of Din-e-Ilahi
and Sulah Kul are still relevant in the present context of
terrorism.
Another historian, Tarun Sharma, said: "Akbar's experiments in
governance, his ideas relating to co-existence and mutual
tolerance of each other's faith, recognition of talents as nine
jewels and composite culture have to be seen as part of a rich
legacy he left behind."
Umang president Rekha Pachauri pointed out that Akbar's tomb in
Sikandra and the Agra Fort needed urgent conservational efforts.
"The city must have a Mughal museum and some special arrangements
for the tourists to taste Mughalai cuisine," she said.
Central Hindi Institute's registrar Chandra Kant Tripathi said: "Akbar's
life provides fascinating glimpses of how tactfully and
diplomatically politics had to be pursued, uniting all segments of
the society towards a higher goal."
The Mughal emperor's birth anniversary was Friday.
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