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| | Desi Talk.com, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The tradition of Muslims celebrating Diwali can, in fact, be traced back to the Mughal Emperor Akbar, according to Firoz Bakht Ahmed, the great grand nephew of Maulana Abul Kalam, independent India’s first minister of education. |
 | | “And this was not only because his wife, Jodhabai, was a Hindu, but because he wanted to participate in the festivals of his people,” Ahmed told News India-Times. |
 | | The elaborate celebrations at Akbar’s palace in Agra set a precedent that his son Jahangir as well as his grandson, Shah Jahan, the man who built the Taj Mahal, continued. |
| desitalk.newsindia-times.com /2003/10/24/diwali-how14.html (163 words) |
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