Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s1.33

c15.s1.33

The practice of making a book more lucid and interesting by the insertion of illustrations in it, is at least as old in Muhammadan India as the time of Bābar. His *Memoirs* was embellished with coloured representations of animals described therein, which formed an attractive feature of the book. Jahāngīr, however, finds fault with them, for most probably the painters did not draw them from life. This defect he avoided in his own *Jahāngīr-Nāmah*.²