Place · Akbar coronation platform · India
Takht-i-Akbari, Kalanaur
Also known as Takht-e-Akbari, Kalanaur throne platform
A low brick-and-stone platform in Kalanaur village, Gurdaspur district, on which the thirteen-year-old Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar was crowned Mughal emperor on 14 February 1556, two weeks after his father Humayun's death at Delhi, in the middle of the campaign against Sikandar Suri. Rebuilt and conserved by the ASI; the platform is the only extant site in India directly tied to a Mughal coronation.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Mughal
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 32.013, 75.138
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- Crowned atAkbar
Akbar was proclaimed Mughal emperor on the brick-and-stone Takht-i-Akbari platform at Kalanaur on 14 February 1556, two weeks after his father Humayun died of a fall at the Delhi library stairs. He was thirteen years old; the regent Bairam Khan ran the empire for the next four years. Kalanaur is the only Mughal coronation site anywhere in India — Babur was crowned at Kabul, Humayun at Agra, every emperor after Akbar at Delhi or Lahore.
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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