He's able to increase the central authority, and perhaps most importantly, he tries to unify India culturally. The Mughals are Muslim and are relatively tolerant up through Akbar and to some degree, Jahangir of other religions, but Akbar takes a very pluralistic approach. He's famous for holding court with religious scholars throughout the empire, and even trying to merge the religions, creating what some would consider a religion of his own that would later be called din-i-ilahi, the religion of God. Many Jain and Hindu principles appeal to him. He becomes a vegetarian. He bans the slaughtering of cows. At his death in 1605, his son Jahangir comes to power.