Photo: Abul Fazl
V&A Museum · Public domainAkbar’s proclamation of victory after the siege of Chittor, sent out to announce the fall of Mewar’s fortress.
The Fathnama casts the siege as holy war against the infidels. It tells of the defenders under Jaimal and Patta, of the order to kill the ‘idolaters’ who still resisted, of their women and children taken captive, and of the sack of Rampura nearby.
It is Akbar’s own word on Chittor, written eleven years into his reign, and stands beside Abul Fazl’s figure of some thirty thousand killed after the fort fell.
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