A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s2.22

c19.s2.22

I see no reason to doubt the truth of this explanation, which is confirmed by the fact already noticed that Jahāngīr erected statues of two other chiefs of Chitōr in the palace garden at Agra. But if the statues of the riders date from the time of either Akbar or Jahāngīr, they must have been placed originally somewhere else, and subsequently shifted by Shahjahān who built the Delhi (Shahjahānabad) Fort. There is, however, nothing in Bernier's statement to indicate that the statues were not ordered by Shahjahān, who may have been influenced by the precedent set at Agra by his father.¹