Great Turkic descent empire ruling India (1526–1857)

A battle. Gouache drawing.

A Mogul man and wife. Gouache painting.

The Mughal emperor being weighed on his birthday. Coloured etching.

The Āʻīn-i Akbarī / by Abū ʼl-Faẓl ʻAllāmī ; translated from the original Persian by H. Blochmann.

1 drawing : gouache, with oxidised silver

xxii, 339 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : frontispiece (folded map), table ; (8vo)

The life of Baber, Emperor of Hindostan / [by himself. Abridged from the translation by J. Leyden & W. Erskine] by R. M. Caldecott.

[iii]-vi, 234 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 40 pages : folded frontispiece (portrait), folded map ; (8vo)

The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, the present Emperor of Persia / To which is prefix'd a short history of the Moghol Emperors. At the end is inserted, a catalogue of about two hundred manuscripts in the Persic and other oriental languages. Collected in the East. By James Fraser.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci. Translated with introd. and notes by William Irvine.

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Mughal Empire

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The Āʻīn-i Akbarī / by Abū ʼl-Faẓl ʻAllāmī ; translated from the original Persian by H. Blochmann.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

The life of Baber, Emperor of Hindostan / [by himself. Abridged from the translation by J. Leyden & W. Erskine] by R. M. Caldecott.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci. Translated with introd. and notes by William Irvine.

Mughal Empire

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mughal Empire

Works from the collections

The Āʻīn-i Akbarī / by Abū ʼl-Faẓl ʻAllāmī ; translated from the original Persian by H. Blochmann.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

The life of Baber, Emperor of Hindostan / [by himself. Abridged from the translation by J. Leyden & W. Erskine] by R. M. Caldecott.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci. Translated with introd. and notes by William Irvine.

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