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Write brief essay: Narrative paintings under Jahangir and Akbar

  • UPSC 1994
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

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Narrative painting — the illustration of a continuous story, chronicle, or historical event across a sequence of manuscript folios, as against a single standalone portrait or album page — was the dominant mode of the Mughal atelier under Akbar and receded sharply under Jahangir.

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  • Akbar and the Flowering of the Grand Narrative Manuscript
  • Jahangir and the Turn Away from the Manuscript
  • Reading the Two Reigns Together
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