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Emperor Akbar the third in the succession of his dynasty, was the true founder of the Indian Empire of the Great Moguls. He left a magnificent heritage to his descendants. He was the spring and fount of the sagacious policy of his government, and the proof of the soundness of his system is the duration of his undiminished empire, in spite of the follies and vices of his successors, until it was undone by the puritan reaction of his great-grandson Aurangzib.” “Akbar's main difficulties lay in diversity and jealousies of the races and religions with which he had to deal. It was his method of dealing with these difficulties which established the Mughal Empire in all the power and splendour that marked its sway for a hundred years to come. It was Aurangzib's reversal of this method which undid his ancestor's work and prepared the way for the downfall of his dynasty.”This is the tale of the last of the great Mughal Emperors of India, Aurangzib or the “world-seizer”, his life is traced by expert historian Professor Lane-Poole though the blood, battles and intrigue of his vast wars, rapid expansion, religious piety and fatal over-extension. It was Aurangzib's reversal of this method which undid his ancestor's work and prepared the way for the downfall of his dynasty.