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December 9, 2016 at 1:57 pm

The Padshahnama or ‘Chronicle of the Emperor’ is an account of the first regnal decade of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Who is also known as the engineer king and during whose time the Taj Mahal along with many other famous architectural marvels were built. The album is dated 1656-1657 and is superbly illustrated with some of the finest Mughal miniature paintings in the imperial tradition. Just as the Taj Mahal epitomises the architectural achievement of Shah Jahan’s epoch, it is the paintings of this album that provide us with the single most eloquent testimony to the splendour that marked life at court during his reign and different scenes and situations which are depicted taking place during that period. Shah Jahan reign was one of the longest among the Mughal emperors and was a great time during which art and architecture flourished.