The manuscript's illustrators, Beach explained, were not unlike 19th or 20th century court photographers, documenting all important events of the emperor's reign, the ceremonial and grisly alike.

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 ...

Illustrated manuscripts, finely woven textiles, and intricately cut gemstones (including a 249-carat spinel gifted to Jahangir by Shah Abbas of Iran in 1621, on loan from the al-Sabah collection ...

The succeeding British colonization of India between the mid-19th and 20th centuries led to the leaf-by-leaf dispersal of countless Mughal manuscripts into global institutions.

This is true not only of Mughal history, my area of study, but of much of women and queer-oriented histories across the world. ... Instead, she used what she called a “defective” manuscript.

Gulbadan Begum is the first and only woman historian of the Mughal Empire. On an autumn day in 1576, ... Persian and Mughal manuscripts and various other sources. ...

The Mughal empire is a period synonymous with grandeur and cultural efflorescence, architectural marvels and culinary treasures. Based on a 17th-century Persian manuscript, ...

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 ...