01025pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001400040245010100054260000900155300001300164362001100177520065700188650001200845773003400857180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLal, Ruby  aSettled, sacred and all-powerful: making of new genealogies and traditions of empire under Akbar  c2001  ap.941-58  a17 Mar  aThe Mughal `empire' as we know it today came into being in Akbar's time.  This was when the monarchy, the court, the palaces were all established on a grand scale.  But the process of establishing Mughal forms - including its practices, institutions, cities, imperial splendour - occurred over a period of time.  By the latter half of Akbar's reign, the empire had become increasingly well rooted and by then had come to be presented as sacred.  Another related development in the process of imperial construction was the emphasis on its disciplinary aspect, which in turn had deep implications on the domestic world of the divine monarch. - Reproduced  aHistory  aEconomic and Political Weekly