Mughal rulers employed a policy of wide religious inclusion.
Evidence
Unlike Christians and Jews, Hindus are not recognized in the Qur’an as other ‘people of the book’, so in theory they were not even necessarily to be tolerated by Islamic rulers, as the Mughal emperors always had to be aware. They managed this potential difficulty by adopting a policy of wide religious inclusion. Akbar and Jahangir worked easily with many faiths. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1263
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1263
- XREF: connects to: The Persian Empire’s religious tolerance facilitated its political success. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 445; Empire and wealth foster the development of stable religions and art forms. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 674; Mughal religious tolerance tempered some British Islamophobia before 1857 — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 57