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What happened to the inhabitants of Chitor after Akbar captured the fortress?
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A painting titled Akbar Hunting from a folio of Akbarnama (“History of Akbar”), late 16th century; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
When the Mughal emperor Akbar captured the historic fortress of Chitor in 1568, he showed no mercy to those who refused to acknowledge his supremacy and massacred its inhabitants. Following the fall of the fortress, Chitor was constituted as a district and placed under the governance of Āṣaf Khan.12