I suggest you read about the greatest of the Mughal emperors — Jalaluddin Akbar. He ruled over what is now India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the entire Asian sub-continent.

He was the richest man in the world then, and the greedy English were envious of his wealth and power and tried to trade with him. That’s how they entered India.

Akbar was unable to read or write. But he had a phenomenal memory, and was a great political and military strategist. He was able to unite Islam, Hinduism, and the various minority religions. He invited the white Jesuits to his court and engaged them in such theological disputations that they even assumed he was on his way to becoming a Catholic Christian. He was a Muslim, but never a fundamentalist, and was open to other religions and their practices.

His favorite wife and the mother of his heir was a Hindu princess.

Akbar was not Indian, but descended from the militarist Mongols (Genghis Khan). His mother was Persian, and he was a lover of art, music, Persian architecture and culture, as well as animals. A number of the great monuments, mausoleums and architecture in India and Pakistan were built by him.

Jalaluddin Akbar was a great naturalist and stopped eating meat, saying no man should make his stomach a graveyard for animals.