Today, the lavish manuscripts and paintings they created remain a vibrant part of India’s cultural and artistic history. In his popular 1981 book The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court , ...

The British Library's Mughal India exhibition is the first to document the entire period, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, through more than 200 exquisite objects. Visitors can see authentic ...

A lavishly illustrated 16th century Mughal book, normally accessible only to scholars, receives a rare public showing. A pearl of poetry and paint - Los Angeles Times ...

Some of our best-known Mughal manuscripts in the British Library’s Persian collection have already been digitised. These include the imperial Akbarnāmah (Or.12988), Akbar’s copy of Nizami’s ...

All these manuscripts have been digitised. The Mughal Emperor Humayun's meeting with Shah Tahmasp of Iran in 1544 by the artist Sanvala, 1602-'03.

The British Library has an outstanding and world-renowned collection of Mughal manuscripts, album paintings and documents. The forthcoming exhibition Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire (9 ...

This is especially true of Akbar’s Hamzanama manuscript, a key milestone on the way to the new Mughal art. In one remarkable leaf on display, we can discern two distinct hands at work ...

Princeton University has placed a new digital library of 200 Islamic manuscripts online for scholars to consult and study. These manuscripts were selected from some 9,500 volumes of Islamic ...

Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, the major fall exhibit at the British Library in London, which runs until April, is rare in spanning the entire arc of the empire.

On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. It was the first time in Mughal India that a woman had ...