This volume brings together twelve studies, written between 1982 and 1997, on Mughal art. Analyzing the form and content of the artwork in its context, the author offers a new interpretation of the Mughal Gardens; the Taj Majal; palaces at Agra, Delhi, and Lahore; and the Padshahnama.

Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays

Arts & Photography

Koch, Ebba

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This book provides a concise and richly-illustrated survey of the history of Mughal architecture and the various influences exerted on the Mughal style by earlier Indian, Persian, and central Asian-Timurid architecture as well as European engravings.

Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858)

Architecture

The greatest monument to love, and the lost world of the Agra gardens and their characterful owners, re-created through superb scholarship and evocative illustrations. The Taj Mahal is the epitome of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet there have been few serious studies of it and no full analysis of its architecture and meaning.Ebba Koch is the only scholar who has been permitted to take measurements of the complex. She has been working on the palaces and gardens of Shah Jahan for thirty years and on the Taj Mahal itself—the tomb of the emperor's wife, Mumtaz Mahal—for a decade. The tomb represents the house of the queen in Paradise, and the author shows how its setting was based on the palace gardens of the great nobles that lined both sides of the river at Agra. She leads the reader through the entire complex of the Taj Mahal, with an explanation of each building and an account of the mausoleum's urban setting, its design and construction, its symbolic meaning, and its history up to the present day. The book features hundreds of new photographs plus drawings by the Indian architect Richard Barraud that include plans and reconstructions of Agra and the Taj complex as they looked in Shah Jahan's time.

The Complete Taj Mahal

Reference

Thames&Hudson

"The Padshahnama (History of the Emperor)", written by Abd al-Hamid Lahori, is one of the greatest works made for the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. The volume in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle documents the first ten years of the Emperor's rule. It has seldom been exhibited and the majority of pages remain unpublished. The Royal Library is making it available for an exhibition organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and the volume will then be rebound. This exhibition is therefore the only foreseeable opportunity to view at once all the illustrations to one of the world's greatest manuscripts. The catalogue of the exhibition, illustrates all the paintings and illuminations in full colour, accompanied by eye-witness accounts of the events, personalities and settings depicted. These are identified and discussed with the help of actual-sized details, comparative photographs and drawings.

The King of the World: "The Padshahnama": An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (AZIMUTH EDITION)

Politics & Social Sciences

Beach, Milo C.

Thackston, Wheeler

Social Sciences

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Beautiful full color reproductions from the Imperial Mughal manuscript made during the reign of Shah- Jahan who reigned from 1628-1658.

The King of the World The Padshahnama An Imperial Mughal Manuscript From the Royal Library Windsor Castle

Milo Cleveland

Thackston, W

Azimuth Editions Sackler Galle

A fantastic adventure story, based loosely on the exploits of Hamza, an uncle of the prophet Muhammad, who travelled throughout the world spreading the doctrines of Islam, The Adventure of Hamza--also known as Hamzanama--tells of encounters with giants, demons and dragons; of abductions and hair-raising chases; and of believers, as well as those who resisted the truth. The excitement of these ancient tales was best captured in public recitations at coffeehouses from Iran to northern India. Each oration was given a particular flavor by the storyteller, who departed freely from the written text, which itself varies in composition and structure from manuscript to manuscript. An illustrated version of the Hamzanama was commissioned early in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, in the second half of the sixteenth century, by the teenage emperor himself. Consisting of 1400 paintings of an unusually large format, it was one of the earliest products of the royal Mughal painting atelier, and perhaps the most ambitious. The enormous size of the illustrations, which are nearly two feet high each, can be explained by their role in complementing the recitations; their sometimes broad and animated style conveys the vigor of the tales. Just over a tenth of the 1400 paintings from Akbar's commission survive today, and this publication of The Adventures of Hamza brings together 60 of the greatest of these works from collections all over the world, and places them alongside new translations of the related text passages.

The Adventures Of Hamza

Owen, Antoinette

Sackler Gallery/Azimuth Editions

Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development 1526-1858

Prestel Pub

• Seminal inquiry into Humayun's personality and remarkable cultural achievements\n• Accompanies the new site museum at Humayun's tomb, a World Heritage Site\n• Offers a new analysis of Humayun's mausoleum as the posthumous sum of his visions and dreams\n• Includes hundreds of beautifully reproduced photographs and illustrations\nHumayun, the son of Babur and the second Mughal ruler, reigned in Agra from 1530 to 1540 and then in Delhi from 1555 to 1556. Until now, his numerous achievements, including winning back the throne of Hindustan, have not been well recorded. The Planetary King follows Humayun’s travels and campaigns during the political and social disturbances of the early 16th century. It delves into Humayun’s extraordinary social and intellectual life; demystifies his magico-scientific world view, draws attention to his deep involvement with literature, poetry, painting, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, occultism and extraordinary inventions, and offers a new analysis of Humayun’s mausoleum as the posthumous sum of his visions and dreams. The book accompanies the new site museum at Humayun’s tomb created by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture upon the culmination of two decades of conservation work on the World Heritage Site. Co-published with Aga Khan Trust for Culture, New Delhi.

The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah, Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

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