Akbar was an ambitious ruler, and one of his most ambitious projects was to start his own religion. He called it Tawhid-i-Ilāhī, but today, it's more commonly known as Dīn-i Ilāhī. While Akbar's achievements were generally quite lasting, his attempt to found his own religion failed to make much of a splash.

Your challenge is to change that. Make Dīn-i Ilāhī a major religion, at least in South Asia.
 
Politically, it might turn out somewhat like this:
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Not that inter-religious tensions in the subcontinent couldn't be subsumed, though. If there are more pressing problems affecting people's lives or if they're well aware of religion-based systemic issues within their polity, Akbar's policy of religious reconciliation could be vindicated, but i don't think trying to solve the situation through creating yet another religion would be the solution.
 
It wasn’t actually fully it’s own religion- the tenets of din I ilahi were all taken from the Quran apart from one, which was an established Sufi principle that complemented vedantic understanding (yearning for union with god) and the practices were essentially that of a new Sufi order, but one open to anyone regardless of religion (the vast majority of adherents were Muslim though) they didn’t need to leave their previous religions or accept any of Akbar’s own eccentric religious practices. So instead of a new religion, I think what it would effectively become is a secular code of moral conduct that anyone, regardless of religion can adhere to.

What you’d definitely need though, is to make Mughal culture a lot less aristocratic. Akbar made no real effort to spread Din- I Ilahi because in his own words "the words of a king are like pearls, too splendid to adorn the ears of the common folk".
 
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