AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM
Amartya Sen
A little over four hundred years ago, in 1591-92, as the year 1000 in the Hejira calendar
approached, Emperor Akbar was on the Moghal throne. The excitement, which was
widely felt in Delhi and Agra about the completion of the millennium in that reckoning,
led Akbar to issue a series of proclamations, about principles of governance. The
pronouncements included, among other classics of civil administration, his famous tenets
on religious tolerance, for example: "No man should be interfered with on account of
religion, and anyone [is] to be allowed to go over to a religion he pleased." There was no
particular reason to think that this or any other principle had any special relevance at the
end of a millennium - rather than at any other time. And yet the end of the millennium in
what was then the official calendar did seem like a good moment to take stock, to reflect
on basic principles, and to contemplate the shape of things to......

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