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ISBN | 9789383968268 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Bib. Info | xx, 275p.; ills. 24 cm. |
Product Weight | 800 gms. |
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The book analyses the Mughal portraiture painting in its intellectual context with a keen focus on historiographical, political, sociological and cultural perspectives. The author shows how the Mughal rulers were not just patrons of art and culture, in the sense of providing resources, but connoisseurs as well, and consciously, as policy, enabled the assimilation of imperial aspirations with cultural creative cultural practices.