Opium Smokers Served Fruit and Bread

Het gebruik en de gevolgen van bhang

anonymous

Royal Couple Distributing Meals

India, Pahari, Guler, 18th century

A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)

Basavana, Madhav Khurd

Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the Bala Kanda (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra

The Birth of Krishna, from a Sursagar of Surdas (Indian, c. 1480–1580)

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar

Voorstelling met zittende mannen en voorstelling met ruiters, een olifant en valken

anonymous

A Ruler Presents a Document to Visiting Nobles

Mughal India, Deccan

Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)

Dharam Das

Traveling Warriors Stopping at a Farm

India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur school, early 19th Century

Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)

Shravana

Maharaja of Kotah Listening to Music and Watching Dancers

India, Kotah school, early 19th Century

A Man Dips His Hand into a Cauldron as Ladies of the Harem Stand in Amazement: A Page from a Manuscript of Religious History

Mughal India