Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.111

c12.111

The art of the Moguls was not suppressed by the interdicts of Aurangzîb, and did not die with the Mogul dynasty, for though, like our modern art, it was divorced from religion and regarded by the Court only as a distraction and amusement, it quickly grafted itself on to the older Buddhist and Hindu schools, and thus became truly Indian—a national tradition and part of national culture—