@Iwalkalone As a modern person, I am empathetic to the desire to find figures in India's past that might heal the rifts of India's present. But as a historian, I think it's a doomed project. You have to ignore so much about Akbar, a figure every bit as complicated as Aurangzeb, in order to hold him up, anachronistically, as the father of governmental system that didn't even exist in his day. I'm far more interested in recovering that complexity and understanding Akbar on his own terms.