Republican Party because the symbol for the republicans is a red elephant strangely enough.
That's a hard one to answer but from all my reading it would seem there was one main reason. The Berbers were nomads so they never were able to be collectively together to form an army against invaders. Therefore, the Berbers were constantly being conquered by someone. Each time they had to learn new laws set out by the conquerors. When the Arabs came with their mighty army, they knew they couldn't fight so giving in was in an odd way a protection system of kinds.
Emperor Akber of Moghal empire promoted promoted cultural and religious tolerance for his people. He married with Hindu princes and many persons from other than Islam religion were elevated to high posts in his Durbar.