The Siege of Chitor (left side) from the Akbarnama (Book of Akbar). Composition by Miskina, painting by Bhura, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, c1590-5. Following the disaster, the Mughal forces adopted a more patient approach, constructing covered ways to give protection as they moved closer to the for. This was eventually successful but the Mughals went on to massacre nearly 30,000 people. Akbar's chronicle said that this was because the inhabitants had resisted rather than surrendered.

The Siege of Chitor (left side) from the Akbarnama (Book of Akbar). Composition by Miskina, painting by Bhura, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, c1590-5. Following the disaster, the Mughal forces adopted a more patient approach, constructing covered ways to give protection as they moved closer to the for. This was eventually successful but the Mughals went on to massacre nearly 30,000 people. Akbar's chronicle said that this was because the inhabitants had resisted rather than surrendered.

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