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Write brief essay on Mughal painting

  • UPSC 2005
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Mughal painting was a court-sponsored school of manuscript illustration and portraiture that fused Persian technique with Indian pictorial instinct, rising with imperial patronage under Akbar and Jahangir and declining as that patronage withdrew after Aurangzeb.

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  • Pre-Mughal Foundations and Humayun's Persian Import
  • Akbar: Institutionalisation and the Imperial Karkhana
  • Jahangir: Naturalism and the Individual Image
  • Shah Jahan and the Decline under Aurangzeb
  • Conclusion

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