Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.20

c17.20

In view of these evidences, we cannot easily accept the view that Akbar lived and died in ignorance of the alphabet. On the other hand, we find some historians describing him as well read in history, and able to compose poetry ² and recite several odes of Ḥāfiẓ.³