1. Akbar issued orders to the kotwals to check the forcible practice of Sati or the burning widow on the funeral pyre of her huband. However, the women who committed Sati of their own free will were allowed to doth so.
2. Akbar was legalized widow remarriage.
3. Akbar was against anyone havingn more than one wife unless the first wife could bear children.
4. Akbar raised the age of marriage to 14 for girls and 16 for boys.
5. Akbar the educational syllabus,laying more emphasis on moral education and mathematics and on secular subjects such as agriculture ,geometry, astronomy , logic and history.

The other Mughal emperors also were patrons of education and there was considerable development in this area . In the fact one of the duties of the public works department , Shuhra -i-am was to build schools and colleges. Jahangir passed a law,whereby if a rich man was to die without an hier , his assests would be used by the State to help in the development and maintenance of educational institutes .

Shah Jahan although more interested in building monuments , took some significant educational initiatives like providing scholarships to assist students.

References- Std 9th ICSE