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 ...

The Mughal empire's most famous legacy is the monumental architecture with which it stamped its rule across South Asia. But the fitting centerpiece of an intimate show filled with ravishing miniature ...

"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 ...

Emeralds and empires, rubies and royalty, pearls and power. In the early 16th century, Muslim invaders from the West swept into Hindu India and established a dynasty that lasted into the mid-19th ...

Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, a ravishing new exhibition at the British Library, will be a revelation for those curious about the people who dominated the Indian subcontinent from 1526 to ...

Left: ‘Maharao Bhim Singh fights Qilich Khan’. Kota, 18th century. Right: Jahangir presents Prince Khurram with a turban ornament, Padshahnama, 1640. | From 'Reflections on Mughal Art and Culture'.

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It was “the treasury of the world”, according to Sir Thomas Roe, writing in 1614 to the future Charles I from Agra, where he ...

Bejewelled, hookah-smoking decadents or one of the most civilised, visionary societies the world has ever known? A major new exhibition uncovers the truth. 07 November 2012 • 4:19pm A scene with ...