[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c15.32 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.32 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.32 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c15.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15.32) The tutor whom Bairam Khān selected was Mīr 'Abdul-Latīf, the Persian, who failed, like his predecessors, to induce Akbar to learn to read, but was the first to teach him the principle of \*sulh-i-kull\*, or universal toleration, on which Abu-'l-Fazl so frequently descants. He came of a Sayyid family of Qazvīn, persecuted in Persia as Sunnīs, but was so moderate in his religious views as to be suspected, in India, of Shiah proclivities. - [Previous: v4.c15.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15.31) - [Next: v4.c15.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15.33) - [Up: v4.c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c15.32) · Pramāṇa