Jalal-ud-din Mohammed Akbar (1542-1605) was the third Mogul emperor of India. The administrative system that he built was copied by the British, and it is discernible in contemporary India. On Nov. 23, 1542, Akbar was born at Umarkot, Sind, while his...

AKBAR (1542–1605), emperor of India in the Timurid, or Mughal, dynasty. He was born on October 15, 1542, in Umarkot, Sind, where his father, Humayun, had fled after being driven from Delhi, his capital, by his Afghan rivals. Akbar was proclaimed...

(1542–1605), Mughal emperor. The greatest emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India, Akbar, the eldest son of Humayun, ruled from 1556 to 1605, initially with the help of the regent Bairam Khan. An ambitious man, a superb strategist, and a...

FOXBOROUGH - Hakim Akbar, the youngest Patriot, was listed in satisfactory condition at Rhode Island Hospital yesterday following an early-morning one-car accident in which he sustained a fractured collarbone and other minor injuries when his SUV overturned on Route 95 in Mansfield. Akbar,...

Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this summer will experience a stunning new creation; a giant Mughal pavilion of embroidered panels made by groups of women inspired by the museum's South Asian collection. The creator of this project, Shireen Akbar, will...

Three Yale University students, including one who translated for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and testified at a former CIA contractor's trial, have been charged in the burning of an American flag on a porch.The three were arrested Tuesday after officers spotted the burning flag and...

A bomb exploded outside the House of Representatives late Tuesday, killing a former Muslim rebel-turned-congressman who had backed a U.S.-Philippine offensive against Islamic militants. A lawmaker's driver and a legislative staffer also died.The remotely detonated bomb collapsed the ceiling at the building's entrance, damaged cars...