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Akbar the Great  

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  • Akbar, one of India's greatest Mughal emperors, was touted as one of the most open to diverse religious points of view. But he also used this position of tolerance as a way of consolidating his imperial control over vast regions of the Indian subcontinent. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Akbar (1556–1605)]

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