Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48) holding a falcon, 1764. Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s). Mughal, probably Lucknow. Opaque watercolor with gold on ...

Through the lived reality of real-life characters of the time, Badshah Bandar Bazaar examines what has long been taken for ...

Mansur and Mughal court workshops, "A zebra presented to the Mughal emperor Jahangir" (1621), opaque watercolor and gold on paper (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London; all images courtesy the ...

An act of vandalism at an 18th century monument built by the once powerful Mughal empire has sparked anger in India, with historians urging authorities to provide better protection for the country’s ...

Discover the magnificent Mughal architectural legacy in India, from forts to tombs. Find out which emperor earned the title 'The Great Builder' behind the Taj Mahal.

Qutub Minar (Qutb Minar) in Delhi is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture and the world's largest minaret at nearly 236 feet high. The first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Qutb-ud-Din Aybak, ...

That dynasty is celebrated in this treasure trove of an exhibition, featuring illustrated manuscripts from the three-plus centuries– 1526-1858 – of the Mughal emperors’ reign. Here are leaves from ...

"At its peak, the Mughal Empire stretched from Kabul in the northwest and covered most of the South Asian subcontinent. Descendants of Timur (Tamerlane), the Mughal emperors ruled over the land from ...

Guru Nanak seems like an unlikely starting point for a book on trade and commerce in India during the Mughal period. The founder of Sikhism is among the many figures of history that author Jagjeet ...