The royal adoption of Indic garb was more than a deliberate campaign to cement control – it was a sign of a deeper form of ...

The Mughal Empire was vast, stretching from Kabul ... paintings like the one in this programme. Our painting is a miniature, an art form popular at courts from London and Paris to Isfahan and ...

says that the miniature style of painting “is believed to have originated in the 11th century AD under the Palas and reached its peak under the Mughal Empire, between the 16th and 19th centuries.

The Mughal emperors retain a fraught ... Timurid holding in north India into a continental empire. But they also had a profound love of art and culture, reflecting an atmosphere rich in cultural ...

The Mughal Empire ruled over most of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In the early 16th century, a warrior prince named Babur marched east from central ...