From Stone to Paper

From Stone to Paper

Author: Chanchal B. Dadlani

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0300233175

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This groundbreaking volume examines how the Mughal Empire used architecture to refashion its identity and stage authority in the 18th century, as it struggled to maintain political power against both regional challenges and the encroaching British Empire.


Later Mughals; Volume 1

Later Mughals; Volume 1

Author: William Irvine

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016088183

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


The Emperors' Album

The Emperors' Album

Author: Stuart Cary Welch

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0870994999

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Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.


The Last Mughal

The Last Mughal

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-08-17

Total Pages: 819

ISBN-13: 1408806886

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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.


The Forgotten Mughals

The Forgotten Mughals

Author: G. S. Cheema

Publisher: Manohar Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9788173046018

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After Aurangzeb Alamgir, History Has Been Singularly Unkind To The Later Mughals. Even The School History Books Do Not Talk Of Them. But The Period With Its Vicious Court Intrigues, Recalcitrant And Increasingly Independent Provincial Governors, And A Ruling Class Which Had Become Utterly Amoral, Corrupt And Unscrupulous Makes For A Gripping Story And Fascinating Parallels Can Be Drawn With The Political Scene Of Today.


Fall Of Mughal Empire Vol-3 (hb)

Fall Of Mughal Empire Vol-3 (hb)

Author: Jadunath Sarkar

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9788125017615

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The Four Volumes Together Comprise A Detailed Study Of The Causes And The Result Of The Events Between 1707 1803, That Is Between The Death Of Aurangzib And The Conquest Of Delhi. Dr Sarkar S Pioneering Work Is Based On A Close Examination Of Contemporary Sources And Documents. The Fourth Edition Of This Book Includes Extensive Footnotes Listing The Best Sources Available On The Subject, Scholarly Acknowledgement Of Other Historians Views, And Detailed Identification In Present-Day India Of The Villages And Towns Mentioned In The Book.


The Empire of the Great Mughals

The Empire of the Great Mughals

Author: Annemarie Schimmel

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781861891853

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Annemarie Schimmel has written extensively on India, Islam and poetry. In this comprehensive study she presents an overview of the cultural, economic, militaristic and artistic attributes of the great Mughal Empire from 1526 to 1857.


Historical Teleologies in the Modern World

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World

Author: Henning Trüper

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1474221084

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Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism, the political thought and practice of revolution, emancipation, imperialism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history.


After the Great Mughals

After the Great Mughals

Author: Barbara Schmitz

Publisher: Performing Arts Mumbai

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Although the study of painting under the Great Mughals is one of the most popular topics of Indian art historical research, scant attention has been given to the continuation of this tradition--the painting and illustrated manuscripts produced at the Delhi court and various regional schools from the reign of Bahadur Shah 1 in 1707 to the end of the reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar in 1858. This volume addresses several important themes of the era: the development of the styles of major artists, such as Chitarman, Dip Chand, and Imam Baksh, and their influence on later Mughal painting; the proliferation of regional styles during these years; and finally offered are new appraisals of the European contribution to Indian art of these 150 years.