Howard Hodgkin progressively refined his collection of Indian pictures over a period of more than 30 years. Its main strength lies in the Rajput schools, especially in those areas where the robust Rajput ethos and the imperial Mughul aesthetic overlapped and interfused, including a group of the animated elephant and hunting scenes from the court of Kota in Rajasthan. As a whole, the collection provides an unconventional and illuminating view of the expressive powers of Indian painters. This text, reissued to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, provides a complete survey and analysis of the individual works, which were selected by Howard Hodgkin himself in collaboration with Milo Cleveland Beach.

Indian Paintings and Drawings from Collection of Howard Hodgkin

Beach, Milo Cleveland

Topsfield, Andrew

Thames&Hudson

The Mughals seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly illustrated work, Dr. Milo Beach shows how Mughal patronage of the arts was radically innovative for the Indian context and profoundly altered the character of painting in the Rajput Hindu areas of north India. He reveals the different styles and subjects of Mughal and Rajput painting and the interplay of the two traditions. Beach also explores the tolerance each showed toward outside influence and change, demonstrating a uniquely Indian attitude towards the arts.

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

One of the minor miracles of art history is the extraordinary flowering of Indian painting that began in the mid-sixteenth century under the early Mughal emperors of Indian, notably Akbar the Great. 
 Only in recent decades has the consummate artistry of early Mughal painting come to be widely appreciated in the West. Scholars have noted the innovations--departures from both Islamic and native Indian tradition--of the new, highly distinctive school of painting, among them natural history studies, a concern for portraiture, and the documentation of contemporary court events. 
 Milo Beach traces, with an abundance of captivating illustrations, the evolution of the Mughal style. While acknowledging the influence of Akbar's interests and changing tastes (related in turn to historical and biographical circumstances), he shows that many of the new tendencies were evident during the short reign of Akbar's father, the Emperor Humayun, whose role as patron of the arts is thereby reassessed. Beach also stresses the traditionalism of the individual painters, who only gradually changed their concepts and compositions in response to foreign influences and to imperial taste. Mughal art, he affirms, can no longer be regarded as simply a reflection of its imperial patrons. 
 The book takes account of recently discovered material and reproduces for the first time important paintings from unpublished manuscripts and albums. It will appeal to the general reader as well as the scholar.

Early Mughal Painting (Polsky Lectures in Indian & Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology)

Harvard University Press

Beach traces, with an abundance of captivating illustrations, the evolution of the Mughal style. While acknowledging the influence of Akbar the Great's interests and changing tastes, he shows that many of the new tendencies were evident during the short reign of Akbar's father, the Emperor Humayun, whose role as patron of the arts is thereby reassessed. Beach also stresses the traditionalism of the individual painters, who only gradually changed their concepts and compositions in response to foreign influences and to imperial taste.

Early Mughal Painting (Polsky Lectures in Indian and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology)

This is a richly illustrated oversize book, the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of paintings that were presented in several art galleries and museums in New York City and New England in 1978-79. It has a Foreword, Preface, Introduction to the characteristics and history of Mughal painting, a Postscript by Stuart Cary Welch of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, and an extensive bibliography. The paintings are in black &amp; white and color, with extensive explanatory captions.

The grand Mogul: Imperial painting in India, 1600-1660

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book w, Dr. Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art.

The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court

Freed-Hardeman College

In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book w, Dr. Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art.

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The Adventures of Rama: With Illustrations from a Sixteenth-Century Mughal Manuscript

Children's Books

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Some of the most attractive wall-paintings found anywhere in IndiaImportant new information about court lifeThe wall-paintings in the Rajput fort at Bundi include the earliest and finest examples of court painting known in India. Only recently available for sustained study, these wall-decorations help to define the religious, literary and artistic interests of the court; the functions of the spaces they adorn; the political aspirations of the rulers; and the evolving relationships between one court, its Rajput neighbors, and its Mughal overlords.True understanding of the wall-paintings is impossible without knowledge of the walls that support them, the ceremonials they surrounded or described, and the events, conflicts and alliances which brought the court (and the painters) into contact with other geographic areas and cultural traditions of India. Scholars have recently located local historical chronicles and literary texts (in Hindi) that yield important new information about court life. Additional projects have produced plans and measured drawings of the buildings within the fort at Bundi, as well as photographic documentation of the wall-paintings in situ. Since this is all new, separately conceived information, full publication and coordination of these discoveries is essential, and it should transform understanding of Rajput painting and architecture in Rajasthan.Contents: Introduction, The Rulers of Bundi, Map - Milo Cleveland Beach; Architectural Structures and Spaces in the Fort Palaces at Bundi - Domenico Catania, Attilio Petruccioli, Claudio Rubini; The Wall Paintings of the Badal Mahal - Milo Cleveland Beach; Elephants, War, and Mughal Service: The Martial Lordship of Bundi's Rao Ratan - Cynthia Talbot; Narrations of Self and Other in Mughal Period Literary Culture - Allison Busch; Painted Palaces: Early 17th Century Rajput Architectural Decoration - Edward Leland Rothfarb; The Bundi Palace's Rang Vilas garden: an unusual Rajput chahar bagh - D. Fairchild Ruggles.

Bundi Fort: A Rajput World

Marg Foundation

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Indian Paintings and Drawings from Collection of Howard Hodgkin

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

Early Mughal Painting (Polsky Lectures in Indian & Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology)

Early Mughal Painting (Polsky Lectures in Indian and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology)

The grand Mogul: Imperial painting in India, 1600-1660

The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court

The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court

The Adventures of Rama: With Illustrations from a Sixteenth-Century Mughal Manuscript

Bundi Fort: A Rajput World