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AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA

A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century

by

DR. RICHARD VON GARBE
Rector of the University of Tubingen

Translated from the German by Lydia G. Robinson

Reprinted From "The Monist" Of April, 1909
Chicago
The Open Court Publishing Company

1909







[Illustration: AKBAR DIRECTING THE TYING-UP OF A WILD ELEPHANT.
Tempera painting in the _bar Namah_ by Abu'l Fazl. Photographed
from the ori