Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs

Friederike Weis, PhD (2005), Freie Universität Berlin, is a specialist in Islamic albums and manuscripts. She has published extensively on cross-cultural exchanges in Persian and Indian art history and co-edited The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents (Brill, 2016).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Problems and Challenges in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Indian AlbumsFriederike WeisPart 1 Albums Commissioned by Mughal Elites: Contents and Compilation Strategies2 The Indian Paintings from the Collection of Archibald Swinton, Formerly at Kimmerghame House, BerwickshireA Report by J.P. Losty, edited by Malini Roy and Friederike Weis3 Obvious Narratives and Hidden Messages in the Large Clive AlbumAxel Langer4 Two Late Mughal Albums in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle: Further Evidence for the Collections of Nawab Asaf al-DawlaEmily Hannam5 Mughal Art on Its own Terms: Reflections on an Album FolioLaura ParodiPart 2 Albums of Foreign Elites: Changes and Challenges6 Three Albums of Seigneur Gentil and Colonel Polier: Cultural Exchanges in Late Eighteenth-Century IndiaSusan Stronge7 To Be Viewed from Both Ends: The Surviving Polier AlbumsFriederike Weis8 A Newly Identified Muraqqaʿ Assembled for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier in the British MuseumMalini Roy with a contribution by Jake Benson9 Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in the Muraqqaʿs of Antoine PolierIsabelle ImbertPart 3 Masters of Calligraphy and Painting: Between Historicism and Innovation10 The Earlier Calligraphies in the Berlin Albums: Reflections on their Origins and Purpose in a MuraqqaʿClaus-Peter Haase11 Polier’s Posterior Album: Rylands Persian MS10Jake Benson12 Expanding the Canon: Mir Muhammad Husayn ʿAta Khan and the Polier AlbumsWill Kwiatkowski13 Mihr Chand’s Copies and Adaptations of Earlier Mughal PaintingsJohn SeyllerPart 4 Spaces and Gazes: Reading Imagined Worlds14 The Spaces in Between: A Yogini of Lucknow for Antoine PolierMolly Aitken15 Building Worlds: Reading Spatiality, Power, and Gaze in Eighteenth-Century PaintingsParul SinghAppendix: Inscriptions and Seal Impressions in the Berlin AlbumsI. 4589, I. 4591, I. 4592, I5001, and I. 4600Will Kwiatkowski and Friederike WeisCreditsBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of Places (Other than Places of Collections)Index of Albums, Letters, Manuscripts, Works, and Calligraphic Styles