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

Origins, Akbar–Shah Jahan ateliers, named painters, portraiture, natural history, technique, materials and later provincial schools; 70+ plates.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [Percy Brown](https://indike.org/pramana/person/brown-p)
- **Extent:** 695 passages, 108,625 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1924; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Percy Brown †1955); published before 1931: public…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c1) — 15 parts
- [c2 Indian Painting under the Mughals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c2) — 24 parts
- [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c3) — 4 parts
- [c4 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c4) — 9 parts
- [c5 Chapter I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5) — 11 parts
- [c6 Chapter IV](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c6) — 8 parts
- [c7 Chapter VI](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c7) — 12 parts
- [c8 Chapter VII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c8) — 6 parts
- [c9 List of Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c9) — 5 parts
- [c10 List of Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c10) — 11 parts
- [c11 Introduction: The Great Mughals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c11) — 21 parts
- [c12 Part I. Historical](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c12)
- [c13 I. The Persian and Indian Traditions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c13) — 43 parts
- [c14 II. Babur; Humayun; Akbar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c14) — 46 parts
- [c15 III. Jahangir the Aesthete (A.D. 1605 to 1627)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c15) — 43 parts
- [c16 IV. Shah Jahan; Aurangzeb, and the Decline](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c16) — 52 parts
- [c17 Part II. Descriptive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c17)
- [c18 V. Akbar's School of Book Illustrators](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c18) — 39 parts
- [c19 VI. The Meridian (A.D. 1610 to 1625)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c19) — 54 parts
- [c20 VII. Portraiture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c20) — 60 parts
- [c21 VIII. European Influences](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c21) — 31 parts
- [c22 IX. Methods and Materials](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c22) — 52 parts
- [c23 Appendix A: List of Painters of the Mughal School together with Their Principal Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c23) — 29 parts
- [c24 Appendix B: List of Collections of Indian Pictures](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c24) — 9 parts
- [c25 Appendix C: Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c25) — 10 parts
- [c26 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c26) — 36 parts

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