The Grand Mughals - Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar (1526-1857)

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 20 Sep 2015 New Books
New Book:
Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500–1700
By J.J.L. Gommans
Published by Routledge - 2003

Mughal Warfare offers a much-needed new survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700. Jos Gommans looks at warfare... Read More
 26 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Agra, historical & descriptive with an account of Akbar and his Court and the modern city of Agra.
By Syed Muḥammad Latif (1851-1902)
Printed at The Calcutta Central Press Co., Calcutta - 1896

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 4 Apr 2015 Rare Paintings
Virgin and Child - 1605 AD

Single-page drawing after an engraving by the Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Shah Salim Jahangir before his accession to the imperial throne in 1605 and artist's signature at lower left above figure's knee. Void background. Inscribed.
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 3 Aug 2014 Rare Paintings
A Fraser Album Artist: An elephant and driver, probably from the Mughal Emperor's stable, with a hunting howdah equipped with a rifle, bows and a pistol.
Delhi, 1815-19 ca.

Pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and gold, on paper, inscribed upper left Mawla Bakhsh in Persian in nast... Read More
 15 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Watercolour, Mosque of Aurangzeb, Ganges, Benares, William Simpson, 1864.

The watercolour depicts the Mosque of Aurangzeb and Panchganga Ghat from the Ganges.

William Simpson was born on 28 October 1823 in Glasgow. Following a seven-year apprenticeship with a specialist lithographic firm, he mo... Read More
 23 Nov 2013 Video
Video:
THE SWORD AND THE FLUTE

An innovative approach to storytelling combining the static character of Indian miniature paintings and the kinetic properties of film, the 20-minute short film The Sword and the Flute (1959), written, directed and produced by James Ivory, tells the story of med... Read More
 23 Nov 2013 Video
Video:
THE GREAT MUGHALS

The Great Moghuls (1990) is a Channel 4 documentary series covering the dramatic story of the rise of the Moghul Empire (1526-1857) of India. Over six generations, from father to son, the Great Moghuls captured, consolidated and profoundly influenced control of the vast ... Read More
 21 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Man feeding an elephant. Single-page painting mounted on detached album folio. Man feeds elephant chained to a post; sparse green-yellow background; red border outlined in gold and containing scrolling leaf design. No text.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper.

Mughal Style
Mughal dyna... Read More
 20 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Tasviri Akbar Padeshah va Sheik Saltm Chisti

Single-page painting on a detached album folio. The Mughal emperor Akbar seated under a tree with Shaykh Salim Chisti, one attendant, two female musicians and a goatherd with his goats and dog.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper.
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 20 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Pír Dastgír
Portrait
On paper

Mughal Style
Islamic
18th Century(late)

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 20 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Woman playing vina to Miyan Sari at night.

Opaque watercolour on paper.
Mughal Style
Mughal dynasty
17th Century (late)

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 20 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Mughal Administration
By Jadunath Sarkar
Published by M.C.Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta - 1920

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Image:
An Officer in white jama with sword.
Gouache on paper.
Mughal Style
Islamic
18th century

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 19 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
A Mughal Nobleman visits Two Shaykhs

This painting, in the Northern Deccan Style, depicts a Mughal grandee, indentified by a later inscription as 'Mirza Mumin Beg, governor of Allahabad', an important Mughal province in Northern India. He kneels before two elderly sages, who are seated on a ga... Read More
 19 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of Persian Language and Literature at the Mughal Court (Babur to Akbar)
By Muhammad Abdul Ghani
Published by The Indian Press Ltd., Allahabad - 1929


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 16 Nov 2013
Wine cup of Jahangir
Nephrite jade, Mughal, dated 1022 AH/1613-14 AD.

This wine cup of dark green nephrite jade was owned by the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r.1605-1627), whose name is included in the Persian verses incised in nasta'liq script round the rim and filled at a later date with white com... Read More
 16 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Portrait of Emperor Jahangir with his sons Khusraw and Parviz.

Jahangir is shown seated under a canopy giving private audience to his two sons. The emperor is surrounded by five figures comprising the two princes bearing fruit and wine, two servants and a page holding a flywhisk. The figures a... Read More
 16 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir
Written by Himself
Translated from a Persian Manuscript
By Major David Price
Sold by J.Murray, London - 1829

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 15 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Portrait of a Mughal courtier in bust profile, thought to be Jahangir holding an apple in his right hand. Void background.

Album folio containing a single-page painting. Ink and opaque watercolours on paper.

Mughal Style
Mughal dynasty
1632 (circa)

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 15 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Jahangir weighing prince Khurram against gold and silver. Single-page painting mounted on detached album folio. Princely figure sits cross-legged in a large scale ornately decorated with gold, rubies, and other precious jewels. Mahabat Khan, Khan Jahan and attendants look on. In the foreground st... Read More
 15 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Wakiʼat-i Jahangiri
By Henry Miers Elliot
Published by Sheikh Mubarak Ali, Lahore - 1875

The history of the reign of Jahangir depends almost entirely on the memoirs written by himself or under his directions. It has long been known that there were different works claiming to ... Read More
 14 Nov 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri or, Memoirs of Jahangir
Translated by Alexander Rogers
Edited by Henry Beveridge.
Published by Royal Asiatic Society, London -1909

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Emperor Jahangir receiving a p... Read More