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Reflections on Mughal art & culture

Title: Reflections on Mughal art & culture / edited by Roda Ahluwalia.
Author: Seminar on ʻMughal Art and Cultureʼ (2017 : K.R. Cama Oriental Institute)
Publication: New Delhi, India : Niyogi Books : K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2021.

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351 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Enter the splendid world of Mughal India and explore its rich aesthetic and cultural legacy through fresh insights offered by 13 eminent scholars. Recent scholarship in this field has offered deeper analysis into established norms, explored pan-Indian connections and drawn comparisons with contemporaneous regions of the early modern world. Further studies along these lines were encouraged in a seminar held by the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, and the formidable scholarship presented by contributors forms the content of this volume. 0The articles in this book explore varied subjects under the Mughal umbrella, challenge long-held ideas and draw comparisons between the artistic expressions and material culture of the powerful Islamicate triumvirate of the early modern period?the Safavids in Iran, the European-based Ottomans and the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent. 0Themes as diverse as portraits of royal women, sub-imperial patronage of temples, word-image relationship, the lapidary arts and the Imperial Library of the Mughals, a reconsideration of Mughal garden typologies, murals painted on architectural surfaces, the textile culture of the city of Burhanpur, changes in visual language and content of painting, and Imperial object d?art have been discussed, challenged and analyzed. The final three articles are groundbreaking comparisons across Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal spheres. This beautifully illustrated book is sure to appeal to connoisseurs, collectors and scholars alike.

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Reflections on Mughal art and culture
Mughal art & culture

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Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index.

Contents

Mughal chronicles: words, images and the gaps in-between / Kavita Singh -- Preliminary thoughts on portraits of Mughal women in illustrated histories: Mahim Anaga and Hamida Banu / Mika Natif -- A noteworthy Ustad in the Imperial Mughal Kitabkhane of Akbar and Jahangir / Roda Ahluwalia -- Figurative Mughal murals: evidence from miniature painting / Subhash Parihar -- The Imperial Library of the Mughals: The British Library Collections / Ursual Sims-Williams -- Muslim kings, Hindu temples: the legacy of India's multi-cultural history / Catherine B. Asher -- Mughal garden typologies reconsidered / Laura E. Parodi -- The lapidary arts in the Mughal Empire / Susan Stronge -- Splendid decorative arts objects of Mughal India / Anamika Pathak -- Splendour of the city, Nagarshobha: textile culture of Mughal Burhanpur / Vivek Gupta -- Transregional connections: architecture and the construction of early modern Islamic Empires / Gulru Necipoglu -- The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp and its impact on Mughal painting / Sheila R. Canby -- The Indian women in a Persiante world: comparisons across Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman literary and visual culture / Sunil Sharma.

ISBN

9789389136784
9389136784

LCCN

2020341010

OCLC

on1237631435
1237631435
SCSB-14225429

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Columbia University Libraries