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IN the course of compiling this work I have received considerable help from various sources, which it is my pleasant duty to acknowledge. To those who have already contributed to our information on the subject of Indian miniature painting by means of books or articles my sincere thanks are here rendered; especially am I under obligation to the writings of the following: Dr. F. R. Martin, who in his monumental work on the *Miniature Painting of Persia, India and Turkey* has covered the whole field of research; Mr. E. B. Havell, the pioneer of the present Indian art movement, whose books have enabled us to view it through his own sympathetic eyes; Dr. Coomaraswamy, whose publications on the subject have been welcomed by all students, and one of whose achievements has been the classification of Indian miniatures into the two schools of Rājput and Mughal; Sir Thomas Arnold, whose investigations into Persian and Indian painting, aided by his unique knowledge of the contemporary literature, have thrown fresh light on its historical aspect; Dr. Laurence Binyon, who has described Far Eastern and Indian painting in such terms that it is possible for the student to realize their relative positions in the sphere of Asiatic art; M. Blochet, whose exhaustive catalogues of Persian miniatures, and whose scholarly articles on the graphic art of the Near and Middle East, have added largely to our information; Sir John Marshall, Kt., C.I.E., Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and his staff of assistants, the results of whose labours are embodied in reports of inestimable value; and finally the late Mr. Vincent Smith, whose *History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon* has provided the student of oriental art with an orderly sequence of periods on which to base his investigations; the last named also placed at my disposal some hitherto unpublished historical notes. To these, my predecessors in the field of Indian art research, I tender my full acknowledgements.