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Kalanaur
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Kalanaur

ਕਲਾਨੌਰکلانور

Where the thirteen-year-old Akbar was enthroned on a brick platform in February 1556.

Kalanaur is a town in Gurdaspur district. On 14 February 1556 the thirteen-year-old Akbar was crowned here on a brick platform in a garden on news of his father Humayun's death, while his army was campaigning nearby.

The platform, the Takht-i-Akbari, still survives.

Banda Singh Bahadur also took Kalanaur in his campaigns.

Kalanaur, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

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Akbar
Akbar1542 – 1605

Mughal emperor, crowned at Kalanaur in Punjab, who ate in Guru Amar Das's langar at Goindwal and ruled from Lahore from 1586 to 1598.

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February 1556 · Akbar crowned at Kalanaur
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