Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71578-3
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 265 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Islamic Manuscripts and Books

Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums (muraqqa's) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums – now in Berlin, Baroda, London, Paris, and Manchester – were assembled for or collected by the Mughal nawabs of Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), local elites in Bengal and Bihar, as well as Europeans. The book not only presents hitherto rarely investigated material, but also provides general information and many new discoveries based on first-hand codicological study and historical research. It will significantly expand our knowledge of the production, collecting practices, and audiences of muraqqa's in eighteenth-century India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Weis, Friederike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Problems and Challenges in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Indian Albums

Friederike Weis

Part 1 Albums Commissioned by Mughal Elites: Contents and Compilation Strategies

2 The Indian Paintings from the Collection of Archibald Swinton, Formerly at Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire

A Report by J.P. Losty, edited by Malini Roy and Friederike Weis

3 Obvious Narratives and Hidden Messages in the Large Clive Album

Axel Langer

4 Two Late Mughal Albums in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle: Further Evidence for the Collections of Nawab Asaf al-Dawla

Emily Hannam

5 Mughal Art on Its own Terms: Reflections on an Album Folio

Laura Parodi

Part 2 Albums of Foreign Elites: Changes and Challenges

6 Three Albums of Seigneur Gentil and Colonel Polier: Cultural Exchanges in Late Eighteenth-Century India

Susan Stronge

7 To Be Viewed from Both Ends: The Surviving Polier Albums

Friederike Weis

8 A Newly Identified Muraqqa? Assembled for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier in the British Museum

Malini Roy with a contribution by Jake Benson

9 Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in the Muraqqa?s of Antoine Polier

Isabelle Imbert

Part 3 Masters of Calligraphy and Painting: Between Historicism and Innovation

10 The Earlier Calligraphies in the Berlin Albums: Reflections on their Origins and Purpose in a Muraqqa?

Claus-Peter Haase

11 Polier’s Posterior Album: Rylands Persian MS10

Jake Benson

12 Expanding the Canon: Mir Muhammad Husayn ?Ata Khan and the Polier Albums

Will Kwiatkowski

13 Mihr Chand’s Copies and Adaptations of Earlier Mughal Paintings

John Seyller

Part 4 Spaces and Gazes: Reading Imagined Worlds

14 The Spaces in Between: A Yogini of Lucknow for Antoine Polier

Molly Aitken

15 Building Worlds: Reading Spatiality, Power, and Gaze in Eighteenth-Century Paintings

Parul Singh

Appendix: Inscriptions and Seal Impressions in the Berlin AlbumsI. 4589, I. 4591, I. 4592, I5001, and I. 4600

Will Kwiatkowski and Friederike Weis

Credits

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of Places (Other than Places of Collections)

Index of Albums, Letters, Manuscripts, Works, and Calligraphic Styles

Über Autor(innen)

Friederike Weis, PhD (2005), Freie Universität Berlin, is a specialist in Islamic albums and manuscripts. She has published extensively on cross-cultural exchanges in Persian and Indian art history and co-edited The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents (Brill, 2016).