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• Title:Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals : art, representation and history / edited by Crispin Branfoot.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Branfoot, Crispin, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND1326.8.S64 P67 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Portrait painting--South Asia--History.
  Portraits--South Asia--History.
  Art, South Asian--History.
  Art, Mogul Empire.
  
• Description:xviii, 270 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 8.
  
• Summary:Deriving from Persian artistic techniques, Mughal portraiture reached its apogee during the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Shah Jahan and Jahangir. Much of the art produced in this period was commissioned for political reasons, and art was one method of ensuring power, increasing prestige and sending messages to the kingdom and rival dynasties. Western portraiture has become an incredibly important source of historical study because of what it can tell us about the tastes, rules, dress, politics and identity of periods and rulers. One of the reasons this hasn't quite happened for Mughal painting is that we often think of these paintings as authorless, but of course the great Mughal artists were in demand, and were able to bring unique skills to their work--the Emperor Jahangir claimed to be able to instantly recognize an artist's work by sight. This collection seeks to enrich our understanding of Mughal culture through its portraiture, examining the artistic conventions and cultural norms from the Persianate early works through to the Europeanization of South Asian traditions in the 19th century and the continuation of the tradition today. A specially commissioned collection of studies from an exceptionally strong list of established scholars and rising stars on both sides of the Atlantic; this marks a major breakthrough in South Asian history.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780767246 hardback
  1780767242 hardback
  9781786724359 electronic book
  1786724359 electronic book
  9781786734358 electronic book
  1786734354 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: What is a Portrait in South Asia?
  Court Portraiture in Mughal India
  Portraying the Ideal Rajput
  What were Portraits for?
  Colonial Modernity and Court Portraiture in South Asia
  1. Portrait or Image? Some Literary and Terminological Perspectives on Portraiture in Early India / Vincent Lefevre
  Prevalence of Portraiture in Early India
  Literary Testimonies and Vocabulary
  Narratives of the Origins of Portraits and Images
  2. Tracing the Rise of Mughal Portraiture: The Kabul Corpus, c. 1545
  55 / Laura E. Parodi
  Introducing the Kabul Corpus (c. 1545
  55)
  Individual Portraits
  Portraits within Larger Compositions
  Paintings' Raison d'etre: Presentation Pieces for the Nawroz Festival?
  Approved Likenesses and Master Drawings
  Timurid-Safavid Legacy
  Conclusion
  3. Jahangir as Publius Scipio Maior: The Commensurability of Mughal Political Portraiture / Ebba Koch
  European Connection
  Standing Portrait
  Jahangir as the Queller of Rebellion
  Archduke Matthias as Publius Scipio Maior
  Standing Portrait before a Landscape under Shah Jahan
  Jahangir and Archduke Matthias in Political Crisis
  Commensurability or Incommensurability?
  4. Portraits in the Mirror: Living Images in Nasir 'Ali Sirhindi and Mirza 'Abd al-Qadir Bidil / Stefano Pello
  Nasir 'Ali Sirhindo's Naqqashu surat
  Story of Bidil's Portrait
  Conclusion
  5. Becoming the Hero: Metamorphosis of the Raja / Catherine Glynn
  6. Prevalence of Portraiture in the Development of the Devgarh Style / Ainsley M. Cameron
  7. Heroic Rulers and Devoted Servants: Performing Kingship in the Tamil Temple / Crispin Branfoot
  Performing Devotion on Venkatam Hill
  Dynastic Genealogies on Display in Nayaka Madurai
  Portraiture and Pilgrimage to Rameshvaram
  New Royalty and Temple Portraiture in Colonial Madras Presidency
  Conclusion
  8. Village Portraits in William Fraser's Portfolio of Native Drawings / Yuthika Sharma
  Road to Delhi
  Gentlemen Settler for Delhi
  Shaping Boundaries, Mapping Figures
  Delineating the Immeasurable: Rania and Pastoral Portraiture
  Capturing a Likeness
  Empiricism of the Heart
  Delhi Artist between Court and Company
  9. Role of Portraiture in Pakistani Contemporary Miniature Painting: The `Mughal Connection' / Virginia Whiles
  Chance
  Artists.