MUGHAL AND PERSIAN PAINTINGS AND ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE RAZA LIBRARY, RAMPUR

• Pages: xxxvi + 242
• Format: Hardcover (HB)
• ISBN: 9788173052781
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL
• Size: 24 cm x 31 cm
• Product Year: 2006

During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings. Their collection was given to the people of India after independence. The Raza Library at Rampur thus possesses a remarkable collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illlustrated books. This includes minia-tures from the great Jahangirnama, considered by many as the greatest of all Mughal illustrated manuscripts. The Raza Library holdings of the Akbar period are equally distinguished including a work on astrology Tarjama-i Sirr al-maktum and a Divan-i Hafiz with eleven miniatures by Akbar?s best court artists painted in Lahore about 1585, published here with much new scholarship. A painting of the aging Jahangir at the jharokha and many other portraits of the 17th-19th centuries will come as wonderful surprises to those interested in Indian art throughout the world. Most of the miniatures (some 4,000 in number) and the contents of thirty-five albums of paintings (an additional 1,000 items) are catalogued herein. Many of these are being reproduced for the first time. The catalogue entries include up-to-date scholarly research on Mughal and Persian painting. An extensive bibliography and numerous indices make this volume a helpful tool for scholars. The catalogue?s 330 illustrations will delight every reader.