...Islam. Even Vincent Smith, who narrates Akbar's aberrations from Islam with relish, concludes that "the whole scheme was the outcome of ridiculous vanity, a monstrous growth of unrestrained autocracy. . . ." How can it then be asserted that Akbar possessed wisdom in the highest degree?38 By the time...

...Dine-e-llahi has been criticised by some historians: "Monument of Akbar's folly not his wisdom, the scheme was the outcome of ridiculous vanity, a monstrous growth of unrestrained autocracy." The criticism is more remarkable for the scintillating phrases used them any substantial purport of...

...but had yet to learn that his officers were prophets. "The whole scheme", says Mr Vincent Smith, " was the outcome of ridiculous vanity, a monstrous...ignominious failure illustrated the wisdom of the warning addressed by the kotwal to the sultan of Delhi some three centuries earlier, and the folly...

...God, but had yet to learn that his officers were prophets. "The whole scheme", says Mr Vincent Smith, "was the outcome of ridiculous vanity, a monstrous...ignominious failure illustrated the wisdom of the warning addressed by the kotwal to the sultan of Delhi some three centuries earlier, and the folly...

..." Din IlahT, " (as it was called) has afforded his critics some shelter. to aim sly darts at him. ' The whole scheme was the outcome of ridiculous vanity, a monstrous growth of unrestrained autocracy " says Mr. Smith. The learned historian thinks that the new faith was but a testimony to his grasping...