But perhaps the secret of his enduring appeal, that which made him ‘the Great Mughal’, and one of only two Indian monarchs to be considered ‘Great’, was his determination, in a complex and complicated land, to negotiate a place of dignity for each person and every creed through the idea of sulh kul. ‘He was a prince beloved of all, firm with the great, kind to those of low estate,’ wrote Monserrate, ‘and just to all men, high and low, neighbour or stranger, Christian, (Muslim) or (Hindu); so that every man believed that the King was on his side.’
Why was Akbar considered great
