Notionpress presents author Pradeep Garg with his true account of king Akbar in "A Forgotten Legacy"

CHENNAI, India - Dec. 19, 2016 - PRLog -- Jalal, the five years old boy who would later become Akbar the Great, was maliciously exposed to roaring canons in the course of  a raging battle?

His mother and other women of the family were penned up for months in a room completely sealed up but for a hole in the roof for air?

These incidents are no wild imaginations but are established historical facts, like so many such other incidents imaginatively interlaced into immensely interesting story in this most authentic fictional biography of Akbar, A Forgotten Legacy.

The author strives to recreate Akbar's life as a person and as a king without taking any liberty with the established historical facts but ignoring none, interpolating his imagination only where no data is available. And what evolves from this is a riveting tale of valour, of romances, of intrigues and betrayals, of triumphs and frustrations, of trials and tribulations, and also of his quests for truth extended over sixty years of an eventful life.

This is the first time that a book on Akbar explores his tormented childhood and its impact on his development and psychology. And unlike any other writing on the Great Mughal, it devotes due space to Birbal, Tansen, Todarmal and other 'Jewels' of his court, and their role in his success and evolution. And very realistically, it also brings alive the discussions of Ibadat Khana (House of Worship) with the gravity and depth never attempted before .

Akbar was a staunch rationalist in that age of irrationality all around who had not only heralded the Renaissance in Hindustan, the book reveals, but had also taken up an agenda of educational and social reforms many centuries before Raja Ram Mohan Roy would. He was the only secular ruler of his times -- secular by conviction and not by convenience -- and was a man much ahead of his times, the author not only demonstrates in this fascinating book but also substantiates the claim by way of extensive notes.

Authored by Pradeep Garg, the book A Forgotten Legacy  is published by Notion Press and is now available to readers all over the world.