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Sotheby's London is preparing to host the biannual Arts of the Islamic World & India sale on April 29, featuring Islamic manuscripts and ceramic pieces. The auction will include manuscripts of ...
This is especially true of Akbar’s Hamzanama manuscript, a key milestone on the way to the new Mughal art.
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 ...
"Feminist history is a slow process, and too often, women historians are the only ones willing to do that work." ...
An Illustrated History of a Mughal Emperor The opulent paintings in the “King of the World” exhibition bring the reign of the Taj Mahal builder to life and incite a passion for learning ...
Her interest piqued and she began digging around for culinary accounts of the Mughal emperors. The hunt led to her discovery of a rare manuscript in the National Museum of India.
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.
Q: What do you think of the Cleveland museum’s collection of Mughal miniature manuscript painting, accessible on the museum’s website? A: It’s really superb.
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.