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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by fooker on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:11PM (#15314400)
"The Mughal's did bad things too, but some of their kings like Akbar at least tried to integrate society and not cause religious strife."

I wouldn't be so sure of that. A lot of Akbar's praises can be attributed to 'creative' history writing after the 1950s.

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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by apsec112 on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:18PM (#15314458)
Interesting, do you have sources for that?
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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by portpecos on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:42PM (#15314653)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus

Scroll down to Akbar and you'll find some interesting things. Also of interest is Allauddin Khilji.

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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by indogooner on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:07PM (#15315327)
It only talks about Akbar's early reign (remember he was crowned at the age of 13) and was under the influence of Bairam Khan. Later years he removed the jaziya tax on Hindus, gave them high postions in his court and would not be recognized as Muslim (see Din i Ilahi). He is also supposed to have made a lot of effort to understand other religions. There is a reason why he and Asoka are considered Great Emperors of India.
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