This rare monumental work, Indian painting under the Mughals by the learned scholar will ever remain a prized possession of students, teachers, researchers and those interested in pictorial art that was for over two centuries the pride of the Mughals. The book is divided into two parts, historical and descriptive with the list of painters and their principal work and list of collections of India pictures and two appendixes with an exhaustive bibliography and index. Seventy two illustrations in the nine chapters form a valuable pictorial commentary on the history of the period, portraying the habits and customs of the rulers and the daily life of the monarchs themselves.