Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqa?s

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction: Problems and Challenges in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Indian Albums

?Friederike Weis



Part 1 Albums Commissioned by Mughal Elites: Contents and Compilation Strategies



2 The Indian Paintings from the Collection of Archibald Swinton, Formerly at Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire

?A Report by J.P. Losty, edited by Malini Roy and Friederike Weis



3 Obvious Narratives and Hidden Messages in the Large Clive Album

?Axel Langer



4 Two Late Mughal Albums in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle: Further Evidence for the Collections of Nawab Asaf al-Dawla

?Emily Hannam



5 Mughal Art on Its own Terms: Reflections on an Album Folio

?Laura Parodi



Part 2 Albums of Foreign Elites: Changes and Challenges



6 Three Albums of Seigneur Gentil and Colonel Polier: Cultural Exchanges in Late Eighteenth-Century India

?Susan Stronge



7 To Be Viewed from Both Ends: The Surviving Polier Albums

?Friederike Weis



8 A Newly Identified Muraqqa? Assembled for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier in the British Museum

?Malini Roy with a contribution by Jake Benson



9 Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in the Muraqqa?s of Antoine Polier

?Isabelle Imbert



Part 3 Masters of Calligraphy and Painting: Between Historicism and Innovation



10 The Earlier Calligraphies in the Berlin Albums: Reflections on their Origins and Purpose in a Muraqqa?

?Claus-Peter Haase



11 Polier's Posterior Album: Rylands Persian MS10

?Jake Benson



12 Expanding the Canon: Mir Muhammad Husayn ?Ata Khan and the Polier Albums

?Will Kwiatkowski



13 Mihr Chand's Copies and Adaptations of Earlier Mughal Paintings

?John Seyller



Part 4 Spaces and Gazes: Reading Imagined Worlds



14 The Spaces in Between: A Yogini of Lucknow for Antoine Polier

?Molly Aitken



15 Building Worlds: Reading Spatiality, Power, and Gaze in Eighteenth-Century Paintings

?Parul Singh



Appendix: Inscriptions and Seal Impressions in the Berlin AlbumsI. 4589, I. 4591, I. 4592, I5001, and I. 4600

?Will Kwiatkowski and Friederike Weis

Credits

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of Places (Other than Places of Collections)

Index of Albums, Letters, Manuscripts, Works, and Calligraphic Styles

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