Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c23.3

c23.3

THE following are the names of many of the artists who executed pictures under the Mughal emperors. The list is as complete as possible, but other names will be forthcoming as the works of the school become known. The abbreviations and references are explained as follows. Where the name is followed by the letter (M.), the painter is a Muhammadan. Where no letter in brackets follows the artist is a Hindu. The letters (J.) or (S.J.) signify that the artist worked under Jahangir, or Shah Jahan respectively. Where no reference of this kind is added the artist worked under Akbar. The word *A'in*, following the name, indicates that the artist is in the list given in the *A'in-i-Akbari*, and therefore one of the leading painters at Akbar's court. After some of the artists' names are added the words, *Kalān*, which means the senior or elder; *Khurd*, indicating that the painter is the younger; and also the word *Chela*. The last may be literally translated as slave, servant, or disciple, and means that he was a pupil of the artist whose name is given. The remaining abbreviations refer to the illustrated books or collections in which the artist's work figures. These are as follows: