The buildings of Akbar

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March 12th 2006

Published: March 30th 2006

In order to comply with my vow to never take an Indian bus again, I was forced to hire a taxi for the day to visit Fatehpur Sikri. This place is about 40km away from Agra and for a short period of time was the capital of the Moghul empire of Akbar. However its dribble of a water supply was insufficient to support the inhabitants, so it was soon abandoned and has been a ghost city for about 400 y... Read Full Entry

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John McCabe

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I quit the rat race in 2005, after working as an IT project manager for over a decade. I then travelled around the world for 4 years, a period of my life which is covered by this blog. After finishing my trip, I wrote a book about my dissatisfaction with my career, my reasons for quitting my job, life as a first-time thirtysomething backpacker, and finally the lessons learned from being exposed to experiences and people that I would never have encountered if I'd stayed in my office. The book is called "Out Of Office Male" and is available at all the usual eBook outlets. I took a ... full info

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10th October 2006

Marcia
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Great Pictures - Broken Links
Great job with the pictures and I enjoyed the text. Unfortunately, most of the links to the larger images seem to be broken.

10th October 2006

Jabe
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Wait for entire page to load?
Hi Marcia - this worked for me, however I had to wait for the entire page of pictures to load before I was able to view individual ones in a separate window.

29th July 2009

Richard Harris
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beauty without toxicity
What beautiful buildings and they were built without posioning the environment and out of indeginous materials. Maybe architect Frank Lyoad Wright learned something from Akbar?

24th September 2009

tripti
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this page is not so helpful in studies .we want the main buildings made or constructed by akbar these are the description or unwanted photographs. i am not saying that is is useless it is not so useful.

1st March 2010

i
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please.
I need and loved decoration architecture , please sent me

22nd March 2010

bharath
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hi.hi.hi!
he should havebuilt it better and nice

22nd September 2010

Yashvi Tomar
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They are just awesome

11th October 2010

preeti
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Oops!
i could built them more awesome

8th April 2011

hammas
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please give some information at the end of the picture
please give some information about akbars building but this picture is very good

5th June 2011

Prakhyati
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Neat blog..!! ;-)
Presentation is quite good. It gives a lot of infomation 'bout d main buildings of Akbar. Helped me alot in my project..nice work..!!

25th June 2011

kanak raj tomar
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details not shown.
The names of building are given but not shown in detail that who had built them,in which year it was built otherwise it would be very helpful in making school projects and assingments. But they are quite good.

11th September 2011

anonymous
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The pics are quite good and will help us with our schoolwork.Pl try mentioning the date,place and year they were built

17th November 2011

Iron doors
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Iiron doors
"Awesome" Its so beautiful and i have no words to say about it. Iron doors

19th November 2012

rokxx
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great..........

19th November 2012

juty
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great

17th January 2016

areesha rehman
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stupid!
nothing informative. it should be much better.the buildings of akbar are great

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