Article: Muslims and Hindus: Multicultural Akbar.(1556 - 1605)(India)(Brief Article)

1556 - 1605

INDIA has always been a spiritual rainforest, teeming with religions and their mutations. Fittingly, its greatest rulers have been as notable for their spiritual experiments as for their political ones. Ashoka, who ruled the Mauryan empire, India's first, at its apogee in the third century before Christ, was a convert to Buddhism. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist. Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against ...

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