The Grand Mughals - Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar (1526-1857)

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 5 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ain-i-Akbari of Abul Fazl-i-'Allami
Translated into English by Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett
Revised and annotated by Jadunath Sarkar
Published by The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta - 1948
Volume 3

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 4 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The AIN I AKBARI
By Abul Fazl Allami
Translated from the Original Persian by
Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett
Published by The Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta - 1891
Volume 2

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 4 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The AIN I AKBARI
By Abul Fazl Allami
Translated from the Original Persian by
H.Blochmann
Published by The Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta - 1873
Volume 1

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 3 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Dara Shikuh - Life and Works
By Bikrama Jit Hasrat
Published by Visvabharathi, Calcutta - 1955

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 2 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Majma-ul-Bahrain or
The Mingling of the two Oceans
By Prince Muhammad Dara Shikuh
Edited and translated from the original Persian by M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq
Published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta - 1929

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 2 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
DARA SHUKOH
By Kalika Ranjan Qanungo
Foreword by R.C. Majumdar
Published by M.C. Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta - 1935

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Dara Shukoh, poet among warriors
By Manu S. Pillai
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 20 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
The First Christian Mission to the Great Mogul or The story of Blessed Rudolf Acquaviva : And of his four companions in martyrdom of the Society of Jesus
By Francis Goldie
Published by M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin - 1897

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 5 Apr 2017 Rare Manuscripts
Two leaves from an illustrated manuscript, probably of the Ramayana
Shorapur, late 18th Century

Persian manuscript on paper, one and two columns of text in nasta'liq script in black ink with one heading in red, intercolumnar rules in black, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, probably trim... Read More
 28 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Tezkereh al Vakiat or Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Humayun
Written in the Persian language by Jouher
Translated by Major Charles Stewart (1764-1837)
Published by Oriental Translation Fund, London - 1832

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 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
Akbar Watches a Battle between Mughal army and Sanyasis at Thaneshwar
By Basawan Asi
India, Mughal dynasty, possibly Pakistan, 1590?95
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Battle of Thanesar, (also known as the Battle of the Ascetics) was fought during the summer in the year 1567, near Thanesar ... Read More
 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
Akbar Watches a Battle between Two Rival Groups of Sanyasis at Thaneshwar
By Basawan and Asi
India, Mughal dynasty, possibly Pakistan, 1590?95
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Battle of Thanesar, (also known as the Battle of the Ascetics) was fought during the summer in the year 1567, near Th... Read More
 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
A Party of Kanphat Yogis Resting around a Fire
By Mas?ud
India, Mughal dynasty, 1630-40

Tinted drawing with gold; on an album leaf with inner border of marbled paper and an outer border of leaf-motifs in blue and gold.

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 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
Babur?s 1519 Visit to Gurkhattri, from Vaki?at-i Baburi (The Memoirs of Babur)
By Kesu Khurd
India, Mughal dynasty, ca. 1590-93

Digital Rare Book:
The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur)
By Babur, Emperor of Hindustan (1483-1530)
Translated from the original Turki text of Zahiru'd-din Muh... Read More
 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
The Yogis at Gurkhattri, from Vaki?at-i Baburi (The Memoirs of Babur)
By Gobind
India, Mughal dynasty, ca. 1590

Digital Rare Book:
The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur)
By Babur, Emperor of Hindustan (1483-1530)
Translated from the original Turki text of Zahiru'd-din Muhammad Babur Padsh... Read More
 27 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
Mughals visit an Encampment of "Sadhus," from the St. Petersburg Album

India, Mughal dynasty, ca. 1635.
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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 26 Mar 2017 Article/Essay
Essay:
How ascetics and yogis were depicted in Indian paintings from the Mughal era.
By J.P.Losty
Published in Scroll.in

A look at illustrated historical manuscripts and Deccani paintings from the British Library.

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 9 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Compass Of Truth or Risala-i-Haq-Numa
By Muhammad Dara Shikoh
Rendered into English by Rao Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu
Published by The Panini Office, Allahabad - 1912

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 8 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mughal Empire (1526 - 1803 A.D.)
By Ashirbadi Lal Srivastava
Published by Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co., Agra - 1959

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Muḥammad Amīn ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī. پادشاهنامه یا شاهجهان نامه (The Book of the King or The Book of Shah J... Read More
 8 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:

The Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors
By Sri Ram Sharma
Published by Asia Publishing House, Bombay - 1940

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The historians have variously described the nature of the Mughal State in India. Description that the Mu... Read More
 7 Mar 2017 Article/Essay
Article:
Persian poet's 700-year-old manuscript, signed by Shah Jahan, at Asiatic Society
By Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
Times News - Mar 6, 2017

KOLKATA: He expressed the spiritual experiences of a mystic, in love with his beloved. In his own enchanting way , he wove themes of ambiguity into his po... Read More