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A Mughal emperor showed to the conservative and religious-minded persons that the language is not a natural process (Zuban-i Qudrat), but it is a worldly process of learning. To prove his argument, he, through his practical experiment, kept the newly born in a completely secluded place known as Gung Mahal. Name the Mughal Emperor :

A Mughal emperor showed to the conservative and religious-minded persons that the language is not a natural process (Zuban-i Qudrat), but it is a worldly process of learning. To prove his argument, he, through his practical experiment, kept the newly born in a completely secluded place known as Gung Mahal. Name the Mughal Emperor : Correct Answer Akbar

Akbar-

  • Akbar the eldest son of Humayun, ascended the throne under the title of Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar Badshah Ghazi at the young age of 14 at Kalanaur, Punjab and his tutor Bairam Khan was appointed as regent.
  • The Second Battle of Panipat (5 November 1556) was fought between Hemu (the Hindu general of Adil shah) and Bairam Khan (the regent of Akbar). Hemu was defeated captured and slain by Bairam Khan.
  • At the age of 18 years, he assumed the reigns of the kingdom.
  • The Rajputana kingdom of Mewar put up a fierce defence under Rana Uday Singh and his son Rana Pratap.
  • Akbar tried to win over the Rajputs wherever possible and inducted Rajputana kings into Mughal Service and treated them at par with Mughal nobility. By marrying Harakha Bai daughter of Bharmal in 1562. Akbar displayed his secular policy with the Hindus.
  • The Battle of Haldighati (1576) was fought between Rana Pratap of Mewar and Mughal army led by Man Singh of Amer. Rana Pratap was defeated but he did not submit and continued the struggle.
  • As a revolt against the orthodoxy and bigotry of religious priests, Akbar proclaimed a new religion Din-i-Ilahi in 1581. The new religion was based on the synthesis of values taken from several religions like Hinduism, Islam, Jainism and Christianity. It did not recognize the prophet, Birbal was the only Hindu who followed this new religion. Din-i-Ilahi however did not become popular.
  • Akbar built Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort, Lahore Fort and Allahabad Fort and Humayun's Tomb in Delhi.
  • Tulsidas (Ramcharitmanas) also lived during Akbar's period. 
    • Akbar is considered the real founder of the Mughal empire in India.
  • He was the first Mughal ruler who divorced religion from politics. 
    • Akbar gave Mughal India one official language Persian.

The incident of "the testing of the silent of speech (khamUshAn-i-goyA)." In an argument about language origins, Akbar held that speech arose from hearing, so babies raised without hearing speech would be unable to speak. For proof, he "had a serai built in a place which civilized sounds did not reach. The newly born were put into that place of experience, and honest and active guards were put over them. For a time tongue-tied (zabAn basta) wetnurses were admitted there. As they had closed the door of speech, the place was commonly called the Gang MaHal (the dumb-house)." Some time later (August 1582), Akbar was in the vicinity and "he went with a few special attendants to the house of experiment. No cry came from that house of silence, nor was any speech heard there. In spite of their four years they had no part of the talisman of speech, and nothing came out except the noise of the dumb."

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