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This epic clash was apparently just a skirmish, according to the Mughals, though they won and therefore were likely to make much of it. AbuвЂ™l-Fazl writes that Rana Pratap вЂњhad not the head for arranging his forces in battle-array' but he вЂњdisplayed alacrity', which the dictionary tells me means cheerful readiness. This is expected because the Rajputs were all petty and jealous (those magnificent forts were built to keep one another out, not some mythical foreign enemy).ДЄkbar himself never fought Rana Pratap, and it was left to his courtier, the Kachwaha king Man Singh I to fight at the battle of Haldighati, most likely on 18 June 1576. And so even if the other two major Rajput clans accept the maha aspect to Rana Pratap, it is not a universal concession but one limited to his greatness as the leader of the Sisodias. The Kachwaha and Rathore rulers styled themselves raja. However, rana was the hereditary king only of the Sisodias. In one sense, he is already called great and that is through maha in the title Maharana that the Rajputs gave him. When did he become great? My guess is probably with the European Indologists, who also made Ashoka вЂњgreat', and rightly too. In his official biography, Akbarnama, written by AbuвЂ™l-Fazl Allami, Akbar is referred to as shahenshah, not as azam. If Akbar was a title, as will be obvious, Akbar-e-Azam then becomes a tautology (Greater the Great) even if in two languages. If he had been referred to in his court as great, a Perso-Arabic word would have been used: azam. This is also referred to in HumayunвЂ™s sister GulbadanвЂ™s book on her family.

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Richards in The New Cambridge History Of India series on the Mughals says Akbar was his given name and AbuвЂ™l Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar his title on ascension.

What about AkbarвЂ™s greatness? Akbar, an Arabic word meaning greatest, was not the kingвЂ™s title. This includes his father Philip II of Macedon, a superb tactician (whom Alexander probably had assassinated), whose achievement was to subdue the Greek city-states, bringing the glittering age of Athens to an end. DariusвЂ™ вЂњgreatness' passed to Alexander and no other figure from that era is given the title.

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