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Plate 1.4 Taj Mahal, Agra, from the Great Gateway (1648).
power with expressions of cosmologically or divinely sanctioned
rule.
Afurther key to Akbars successes were the administrative reforms
that created an enduring framework for rule. There was nothing
specically Islamic about these strategies; they built on Sultanate