Digital Rare Book:
The Revenue Resources of the Mughal Empire in India from A.D. 1593 to A.D. 1707
By Edward Thomas
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1871

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Image:
Attendants at an imperial durbar
North India, c. 1645
This right half of a double-page composition was probably made for a manuscript of the Padshahnama, the official history of Shah Jahan’s reign. In the left page, the emperor would receive the Persian ambassador in a durbar assembly. Here lesser grandees and court attendants are assembled, including several Persians on the left in their Safavid turbans. Two imperial elephants with their youthful riders are also present. Musicians play over the gateway above.
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