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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Mughal"”.
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Cosmopolitan Encounters: Sanskrit and Persian at the Mughal Court
… Sanskrit and Persian literary cultures at the Mughal court during the years 1570-1650 C.E. During this period, the Mughals rose to prominence as one of the most powerful dynasties of the early modern world and patronized Persian as a language of both literature and empire. Simultaneously, the …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
… early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marvellous beings, underpinned by worldviews in which divine power was illimitable, and "occult" sciences were not treated dismissively. …
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Integration/Interpretation: The Stylistic Motifs of Mughal Architecture at Fatehpur Sikri
… ornament of Fatehpur Sikri, imperial city of the Mughal emperor Akbar, was created by and for a transcultural audience as a subtle means of unification. Scholars have largely characterized Fatehpur Sikri as a site that epitomizes the blend of Hindu and Islamic architecture. Inherent in this …
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Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore
… administrative and commercial center under the Mughal Empire (1526–1799), the Sikh Empire (1799–1849), the British East India Company (1849–1858), and the British government (1858–1947) when it took direct control of India. Several of the monuments built in and around Lahore under the Mughals, …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
… focuses on the artistic culture of late Mughal Delhi spanning the last century of Mughal rule and the administration of the English East India Company in North India, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. It brings a hitherto unrecognized period of artistic …
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Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic in Mughal India: Kacchvahas, Ramanandis, and Naths, circa 1500-1700
… and yogic religiosity. With the advent of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century, new alliances--most notably Akbar's with the Kacchvaha royal clan of Amer--led to the development of a joint Mughal-Rajput court culture and religio-political idiom in which Vaishnava bhakti institutional …
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The Construction of Female Identity in Mughal Painting: Portraits of Women from the Shah Jahan Period (ca. 1628-1658)
… individual subjects were a popular theme in the Mughal court during the mid-seventeenth century, or the Shah Jahan period (ca. 1628-1658). These portraits depict idealized archetypes with subtle differences in facial and bodily features. The same portrait conventions were used for both historical …
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Urban Water History of Shahjahanabad, Delhi (1639-1857): Situating Mughal Hydrology and Urbanism in the ‘Persianate World’
The Mughal Empire, founded by the Timurid prince, Babur, in 1526 has been predominantly studied as an Indian phenomenon, with their transregional connections and Turko-Mongolian ancestry not extensively explored. Drawing upon earlier empires of ‘Turko-Mongol’ origin in Iran & Central Asia, the …
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The visual and spatial structure in Mughal urban design: the 16th century city of Fatehpur Sikri, India
… heritage monument. It was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar and was constructed in less than fifteen years (1569-1574). Fatehpur Sikri served as the capital of the Mughal empire for a very short time, from 1569 to 1585. At present, most of its buildings remain in excellent condition. It …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… alliances, between the decentralization of the Mughal Empire in the early 1700s and the proclamation of British rule at the Ajmer Durbar in 1832. I argue that itinerant artists practiced their arts literally and metaphorically in between empires, and thus formulated their subjective, and, at …
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Timurid central Asia and Mughal India : some correlations regarding urban design concepts and the typology of the Muslim house
… source of inspiration for the urban form of Mughal cities. As an additional corollary to this premise, it puts forward the thesis that the formal similarities observed between the architecture of the Timurids and the Mughals were not purely coincidental; but were indeed the result of a …
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Rembrandt redefined : making the “global artist" in seventeenth-century Amsterdam
Rembrandt’s two dozen copies of Mughal paintings that he created between the years 1654 and 1660, remains an obscure collection of drawings within the artist’s extensive body of work. In the scholarship, these drawings are usually framed as his interest in costumes and gestures. This …
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"Warfare, Trade, and ""Indians"" in British Literature, 1652--1711"
… and shaped British people's tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans. This special status, which was also accorded to the Chinese, did not extend to American ""Indians."" I begin my study with the origins of the mistaken term ""Indian"" as applied …
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"Warfare, trade, and ""Indians"" in British literature, 1652-1711"
… and shaped British people’s tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans. This special status, which was also accorded to the Chinese, did not extend to American “Indians.” I begin my study with the origins of the mistaken term “Indian” as applied to …
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Hybridity, Style and Identity, the Court Art and Architecture of Lucknow 1770-1850
… an semi-independent state within the declining mughal empire, and close contact with Europeans provoked an exchange of architectural ideas which developed into a hybrid of Indian and European prototypes. In addition, the publication of Indian scenes in England initiated a response to Indian …
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From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
… over nature. In celebration of its history of Mughal gardens and waterworks, Lahore has been construed in local imaginations as "the city of gardens". In this thesis I argue that the contemporary usage of this popular urban motif is rooted in the nineteenth-century planning of the city and the …
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Gardens of resistance
… project in opposition to Delhi's existing Mughal city center in 1911, appropriated as a symbol of a new nation's power as a post colonial inversion in 1947, serving as a site for rallies, protests, and parades engaging the growing pains of independence and modernization in 60s and 70s, and …
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Fear Decorated
… also an investigation of the use of traditional Mughal painting technique and Western art techniques, mediums, and methods within my art practice.
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