The Ramayana of Hamida Banu Begum, Queen Mother of Mughal India
THE RAMAYANA OF HAMIDA BANU BEGUM, QUEEN MOTHER OF MUGHAL INDIA THE RAMAYANA OF HAMIDA BANU BEGUM, QUEEN MOTHER OF MUGHAL INDIA The Ramayana is a beloved Indian epic whose influence has spread across a multitude of cultures. The Ramayana manuscript presented here is a remarkable example of the breadth and depth of its impact. Translated into Persian from the original Sanskrit and beautifully illustrated with 56 large-scale paintings, this manuscript once belonged to Hamida Banu Begum, a royal member of the Mughal court and mother of the emperor Akbar. Now in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, this Ramayana illuminates the cultural exchanges between the Mughal court and the local Indian populace, the inner workings of a Mughal-era painting studio and the life and times of the fascinating Hamida Banu Begum. For the very first time, the Doha Ramayana is presented here in full, with scholarly essays by Marika Sardar, Audrey Truschke and John Seyller, bringing this extraordinary manuscript to a wider audience. John Seyller Marika Sardar Audrey Truschke THE RAMAYANA OF HAMIDA BANU BEGUM QUEEN MOTHER OF M
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The Ramayana is a beloved Indian epic, influencing a multitude of cultures. The manuscript presented here is a remarkable example of the breadth and depth of its impact: translated into Farsi from the original Sanskrit and beautifully illustrated with 56 large-scale paintings, it once belonged to Hamida Banu Begum, a royal member of the Mughal court and mother of the emperor Akbar. Now in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, this Ramayana illuminates the cultural exchanges between the Mughal court and the local Indian populace, the inner workings of a Mughal-era painting studio, and the life and times of the fascinating Hamida Banu Begum. For the very first time, the Doha Ramayana is presented here in full, with scholarly essays by Marika Sardar, Audrey Truschke and John Seyller, bringing this extraordinary manuscript to a wider audience.
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The Ramayana is a beloved Indian epic whose influence has spread across a multitude of cultures. The Ramayana manuscript presented in this publication is a remarkable example of the breadth and depth of its impact: translated into Persian from the original Sanskrit and beautifully illustrated with 56 large-scale paintings, this manuscript once belonged to Hamida Banu Begum, a royal member of the Mughal court and mother of the Emperor Akbar. Now in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, this Ramayana illuminates the cultural exchanges between the Mughal court and the local Indian populace; the inner workings of a Mughal-era painting studio; and the life and times of the fascinating Hamida Banu Begum. For the very first time, the Doha Ramayana is presented in full, with scholarly essays by Marika Sardar, Audrey Truschke and John Seyller, bringing this extraordinary manuscript to a wider audience.
The Visualisation of Ramayana in the Mughal Paintings under Akbar’s Patronage
Introduction
The first Valmiki-Ramayana in Persian was one of the most celebrated manuscript projects of translation and illustration of any Hindu Sanskrit text, after Razmnama (The Book of Wars, the Persian translation of the Mahabharata) commissioned by Emperor Akbar (r), during his later regnal phase from to CE. This came after the illustrations of several series of Persian historical texts, tales and memoirs, including the enormous Hamzanama, the Tutinama and the Akbarnama.
The Ramayana of Akbar marked the development of a new stylistic genre in the Mughal courtly art under Akbar’s patronage.[1] The splendid illustrations of Akbar’s Ramayana are highly renowned for their acute naturalism, refined execution and the brilliance of surface treatment. A vivid and sophisticated colour palette and distinctive style defining the dynamic conflation of Indo-Persian aesthetic quality values represent the epitome of the classical Mughal idiom that developed during the Akbar period. A proclivity for the Persian classicism and Timurid aesthetic came by inheritance but the Indianised nature and ch
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