Saturday, November 17, 2012

Mughal India | knowing the British Museum, this is probably a hagiographic exhibition

Treasures from a vanished world

THE British Library holds one of the world’s foremost collections of Indian manuscripts and art. This is hardly surprising for a nation that controlled the subcontinent for almost 200 years. Yet these treasures are not necessarily the result of plunder. Most are ...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/11/mughal-india

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