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intervention of Maham Auga, the mother of Adhamkhan, he would have punished him very severely. After the death of Adhamkhan, Abdullakhan Uzbek was sent to Malwa, and Bajbahadur was honoured by being made the general of two thousand soldiers.
Akbar had sent Majnunkhan Kaksal to capture the fort of Kalinjar, which is 90 miles from Allahabad and 60 miles from Rinva. This castle was in the possession of Ramchandradev, the king of Rinva. When king Ramchandradev yielded to Akbar, he gave him a Jagir near Allahabad.
All this shows that he was generous in dealing with his enemies. And due to his brave and generous qualities he was enabled to establish a wide-spread Empire by the end of A. D. 1595.
It is true that Akbar had fought many battles and had been always successful; but he never forgot the heroism which was shown by such Indian heroes as Pratap, Jayamal, Pata, Udayasinh, Hemu and Queen Durgavati who fought alone unaided by any other Hindu king, who had once defeated Bajbahadur, the king of Malwa, who was an expert archer and fighter, who was the princess of the king of Kalinjar, who chose to self-immolate rather than submit to the enemy, and who was the queen of Chauragadh, the capital of Gondwana.
History bears enough testimony to the fact that Akbar had become more popular than any of his predecessors. There are many reasons for this.
First of all he treated all his subjects equally well, irrespective of their religion. This was a rare trait in the Mogul Emperors of those days. Then again he had introduced various beneficial reforms in his State. He had put great restrictions over wine-drinkers and prostitutes. He used to regulate the prices of commodities, so that no merchant could charge exorbitant prices. He had put a stop to the practice of Sati and child-marriage. Similarly he had prohibited marriages between parties having great disparity of age. He had also prohibited animal-offerings to Gods. In the matter of taxes, he had made the taxes as light as possible. This last matter he had
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