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Title: Akbar, Emperor of India

Author: Richard von Garbe

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AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA

A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century

by

DR. RICHARD VON GARBE
Rector of the University of Tubingen

Translated from the German by Lydia G. Robinson

Reprinted From "The Monist" Of April, 1909
Chicago
The Open Court Publishing Company

1909

[Illustration: AKBAR DIRECTING THE TYING-UP OF A WILD ELEPHANT.
Tempera painting in the _bar Namah_ by Abu'l Fazl. Photographed
from the original in the India Museum for _The Place of Animals in
Human Thought_ by the Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Akbar Directing the Tying-up of a Wild Elephant (Frontispiece)

Akbar, Emperor of India

Mausoleum of Akbar's Father, Humayun

View of Fathpur

Akbar's Grave

Mausoleum of Akbar at Sikandra

The Chakra, the Indian Emblem of Empire

AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA.[A]

The student of India who would at the same time be an historian,
discovers to his sorrow that the land of his researches is lamentably
poor in historical sources. And if within the realm of historical
investigation, a more seductive charm lies for him in the analysis of
great personalities than in ascertaining the course of historical
development, then verily may he look ab