Shah Jahan

Author : Fergus Nicoll
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670083038
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shah Jahan written by Fergus Nicoll and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khurram Shah Jahan, a title meaning King of the World , ruled the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1659. His reign marked the cultural zenith of the Mughal dynasty: a period of multiculturalism, poetry, fine art and stupendous architecture. His legacy in stone embraces not only the Taj Mahal the tomb of his beloved second wife, Anjumand Mumtaz Mahal but fortresses, mosques, gardens, carvanserais and schools. But Shah Jahan was also a ruthless political operator, who only achieved power by ordering the murder of two brothers and at least six other relatives, one of them the legitimately crowned Emperor Dawar Baksh. This is the story of an enlightened despot, a king who dispensed largesse to favoured courtiers but ignored plague in the countryside. Fergus Nicholl has reconstructed this intriguing tale from contemporary biographies, edicts and correspondence. He has also traveled widely through India and Pakistan to follow in Shah Jahan's footsteps and put together an original portrait that challenges many established legends to bring the man and the emperor to life.

Author : ʻInāyat Khān
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan written by ʻInāyat Khān and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete English translation of a seventeenth-century Persian history of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Between 1628 and 1658 Shah Jahan ruled an extensive empire that stretched from Afghanistan in the west to Assam in the east. His reign has been relatively neglected in the historiography of medieval India, partly because of the inaccessibility of Persian source material and the scarcity of English translations. Richly illustrated with color plates of seventeenth-century Mughal paintings from the famous Windsor Castle manuscript of the Padshah Nama, this monumental volume will be an indipensable source for all future work on Mughal India.

Author : Ali Anooshahr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383243266
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan written by Ali Anooshahr and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first multi-disciplinary analysis of Shah Jahan and his predecessor Jahangir, this collection of essays focuses on one of the least studied periods of Mughal history, the reign of Shah Jahan* Through subaltern court writing, art, architecture, accounts of foreign traders and poetry, the authors reconstruct the court of the Mughal emperor, whose influence extended even to 19th-century AfghanistanThe reign of Shah Jahan (1628-58) is widely regarded as the golden age of the Mughal empire, yet it is one of the least studied periods of Mughal history. In this volume, 14 eminent scholars with varied historical interests - political, social, economic, legal, cultural, literary and art-historical - present for the first time a multi-disciplinary analysis of Shah Jahan and his predecessor Jahangir (r. 1605-27). Corinne Lefèvre, Anna Kollatz, Ali Anooshahr, Munis Faruqui and Mehreen Chida-Razvi study the various ways in which the events of the transition between the two reigns found textual expression in Jahangir's and Shah Jahan's historiography, in subaltern courtly writing, and in art and architecture. Harit Joshi and Stephan Popp throw light on the emperor's ceremonial interaction with his subjects and Roman Siebertz enumerates the bureaucratic hurdles which foreign visitors had to face when seeking trade concessions from the court. Sunil Sharma analyses the new developments in Persian poetry under Shah Jahan's patronage and Chander Shekhar identifies the Mughal variant of the literary genre of prefaces. Ebba Koch derives from the changing ownership of palaces and gardens insights about the property rights of the Mughal nobility and imperial escheat practices. Susan Stronge discusses floral and figural tile revetments as a new form of architectural decoration and J.P. Losty sheds light on the changes in artistic patronage and taste that transformed Jahangiri painting into Shahjahani. R.D. McChesney shows how Shah Jahan's reign cast such a long shadow that it even reached the late 19th- and early 20th-century rulers of Afghanistan.This imaginatively conceived collection of articles invites us to see in Mughal India of the first half of the 17th century a structural continuity in which the reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan emerge as a unit, a creative reconceptualization of the Mughal empire as visualized by Akbar on the basis of what Babur and Humayun had initiated. This age seized the imagination of the contemporaries and, in a world as yet unruptured by an intrusive colonial modernity, Shah Jahan's court was regarded as the paradigm of civility, progress and development.

Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994999
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperors' Album written by Stuart Cary Welch and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author : Julia Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781900251082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shah Jahan written by Julia Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated story of this famous monument. 48p. 5-8 yrs.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385223997
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shah Jahan written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Aurangzib: Reign of Shah Jahan written by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Aurangzib: Reign of Shah Jahan. War of succession written by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book History of Aurangzib: Reign of Shah Jahan.- vol. II. War of succession.- vol. III. Northern India, 1658-1681.- vol. IV. Southern India, 1645-1689 written by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Muni Lal
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shah Jahan written by Muni Lal and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1986 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: