Akbar Jalal ad-din (1542-1605) - ruler of the Mughal Empire in India since 1556. He strengthened the power of the Mughal dynasty and expanded by conquest the borders of the state so that they covered the territory from Balkh in the North to the Godavari River in the South (including Kashmir and present-day Afghanistan) and from the sea in the West to the sea in the East. By dynastic marriages, Akbar strengthened ties with the Rajput principalities, the Rajput cavalry became the basis of the Akbar army. In the fight against the separatism of large feudal lords, he carried out a number of measures that limited the autocracy of large jagirdars, made an attempt in 1574 to liquidate the jagir system and, instead of distributing land to large military leaders, pay them a salary from the treasury, and entrust state officials with collecting tax from all lands.