Akbar
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Akbar, also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand
Akbar with a lion and a calf, by Govardhan, c. 1630
Official seal of Mughal emperor Akbar, from Or 14982 1, dating to 978 A.H.
Contemporary portrait of Akbar as a boy, offering a painting to his father Humayun while in Kabul. Painted in 1550–56
Afghan troops of the Sur Empire surrendering to the Mughal forces of Akbar at the Siege of Mankot (1557). Akbarnama (1590–95)
Bairam Khan
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Muhammad Bairam Khan, commonly known as Bairam Khan or Bayram Khan was an important military commander, and later commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of
Near contemporary portrait of Bairam Khan at the 1558 Siege of Mankot. Painting from the Akbarnama c. 1590
The Princely Lovers, a likely depiction of an affair between Bairam Beg and the Safavid Princess Soltanum.
Bairam Khan is assassinated by an Afghan at Patan, 1561, Akbarnama