About the book: 2015 / Never before has the Mughal dynasty known such rise and prosperity as under the padishah Akbar the Great. His power extended to the entire Hindustan; Rajasthan, Gujarat, Sindh, Bengal were conquered... The untold wealth, populous cities and unprecedented military power of the empire amazed the imagination of everyone who visited Akbar's court. But the time came, and the padishah faced the most difficult choice in his life: to whom to entrust his conquests, into whose hands to transfer the glory of the Mughals? The sons are too susceptible to base passions, and the grandchildren have not yet matured... Meanwhile, Akbar's eldest son, Salim, is already openly showing signs of disobedience and publicly claims power. How can we prevent the balance achieved by such labor and such sacrifices from being destroyed in the heat of related civil strife??..