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Originally Posted by Mumtaz Hayat Maneka
Muscat is the capital of the Sultanate of Oman................................................... .........................
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Thx for giving such a valuable knowledge to me. Anyhow answer of the question No. XV (From which country Pakistan purchased Gwader?) will remain the same as I posted in my solved effort as "Muscat". My ignorance of the fact that Muscat is the capital of Sultanat of Oman didn't affect my answer adversely, did it?
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Originally Posted by aano
Following is some further information about it:
The significance of the scheme according to its sponsors and authors was that it was "non-religious". Religion that caused a warring atmosphere in the country would have no place in the syllabus. So in order to made it acceptable to Muslims, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Principal of Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, was made the president of the committee that drafted the report.
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For a clear view of who accepted and who rejected Akbar's Din-e-Illahi please have a look at the Chapter XVII - "Religion at the Court of Akbar" in the illustrious book of
Dr. S. M. Ikram "Mulsim Rule in India and Pakistan".
There is plenty of information on persons who bowed down before Akbar's farcical Din because they were few in numbers and could be counted on finger tips. Even such close associates of Akbar as Ma'an Singh flatly refused to accept his so called religion.
Contrary to your assertion about
Ishwari Parsad’s book I found these lines on page 377, Chapter XV – “Era of Reconstruction” sub-heading – "The emperor, not a missionary" in
“ A short History of Muslim Rule in India” by the said author:
“The Ain (Akbari) mentions 18 members of the Din-e-Illahi among whom the most prominent are Abul Fazal, Faizi, Sheikh Mubarik, Mirza Jani of Thatta and Aziz Koka whose faith in Islam was shaken by the greed of the harpies of the Meccan shrines. The only hindu to join was Raja Birbal whose cosmopolitan views won for him the confidence and affection of the empror.”
You can find copious amount of information about adherents of Akbar's din-e-Illahi on net also. I found this in Wiki Pedia's article on Din-e-illahi.....
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Dīn-i Ilāhī as propounded by Akbar combined mysticism, philosophy and nature worship. It also recognized no gods or prophets. This religious doctrine had few followers; the only person other than Akbar who was a Dīn-i Ilāhī believer until death was Birbal, one of Akbar's ministers. Raja Man Singh, his commander-in-chief, refused conversion, saying that he recognized only two religions, Hinduism and Islam."
Similarly read Wikipedia's article on Birbal.
Dr Zakir Hussain was (and still is) a prominent figure in the Indian educational field. His contribution in drafting Wardha Education Scheme is well known and can't be doubted in any way.
You can find many references on net about Zakir Hussian heading Wardha Committee. I found these lines in an article on
http://www.zakirhusain.com
"Some of Mahatma’s admirers were shocked by Zakir Husain’s candor but Gandhi was not. He asked Zakir Husain to head a national committee constituted to prepare a scheme of Basic Education(i.e, Wardha Education Committee). The syllabus this committee recommended impressed many, including agencies of the Raj, as sound, and won Zakir Husain nation-wide recognition. In some schools in Congress-ruled provinces the syllabus was introduced; the experiment would have continued had Congress ministries not resigned in 1939. "
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http://www.zakirhusain.com/php/showN...sid=2&linkid=8)