A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s2.12

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But before going into the history of the much debated Delhi statues it is well to note that Jahāngīr, in the eleventh year of his reign, had caused life-size figures of the Rānā of Chitōr (Amar Singh) and his son Karan to be carved in marble and set up in the palace garden at Agra, below the window (*darshan jharōkhā*) where the Emperor made his daily public appearance.¹ This undoubted fact, recorded by Jahāngīr himself, is clear proof that the earlier Mughal emperors had no objection to life-size statues of men, and sometimes had them made. No trace has been found of the garden effigies, which appear to have been carved at Ajmēr and thence sent to Agra.