A story of Fathepur-Sikri and Akbar
The story of Sheikh Salim Chisti Darga and Mughal Emperor Akbar’s links with it ! Near Agra and Keoladeo National park, there is a World Heritage Site, which is the palace of Mughal Emperor Akbar and adjacent the tomb of Seikh Salim Chishti, which surprisingly shares the same wall, but it is still now is a personal property. The ancestors of Sheikh Salim Chisti still stay in the compound. Each time I visited the pace for a weekend long drive, came to know little bit from each guide and then read more to know some more. Each part of it was more interesting more the interesting story. Salim Chisti, leading his Shaikzada Division, fought in the Battle of Haldighati for Akbar, against Maharana Pratap, that’s another story. Salim Chishti was a greatly worshiped Sufi Mystic who, it was thought by many, could perform wonders, which very truly in 2012 is also showing the wonders in all means. The Mughal Emperor the great visionary ‘Akbar-e-Azam’ (Inhsah Allah) went to