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'''Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar'''<ref name="Britannica">{{Cite web |last=Ballhatchet |first=Kenneth A. |date=31 March 2023 |title=Akbar |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akbar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525120830/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akbar |archive-date=25 May 2023 |access-date=28 May 2023 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |language=en}}</ref> ({{Birth date|1542|10|15|df=y}}{{efn|name=birth}} – {{Death date|1605|10|27|df=y}}),<ref>{{Encyclopædia Iranica|volume=online|title=Akbar I|year=2014|last=Lehmann|first=F.|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/akbar-i-mughal-india|access-date=29 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Beveridge Volume I|1907|pp=139–140}}</ref><ref name="Oxford University Press-2014">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2014 |title=Akbar I |encyclopedia=World Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001/acref-9780199546091-e-209 |access-date=29 May 2023 |orig-date=2004 |edition=online |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-954609-1 |oclc=150655825 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922030109/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001/acref-9780199546091-e-209 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> popularly known as '''Akbar the Great''',<ref>{{harvnb|Syed|2011|p=404}}</ref> and also as '''Akbar I''' ({{IPA-fa|ak.barbaɾ}}),<ref name=time /> was the third [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]], who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, [[Humayun]], under a regent, [[Bairam Khan]], who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in the [[Indian subcontinent]].
 
Akbar gradually enlarged the [[Mughal Empire]] to include much of the Indian subcontinent through Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system of administration and adopted a policy of conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy. To preserve peace and order in a religiously and culturally diverse empire, he adopted policies that won him the support of his non-Muslim subjects, including abolishing the [[Jizya|sectarian tax]] and appointing them to high civil and military posts.