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| Keywords: Emperor Awrangzib Receives Prince Mu'azzam..jpg This painting from an album complied for Shuja al-Dawla a nawab of Oudh was produced at the end of the period of Mughal greatness Mughal power and wealth and hence artistic patronage and production peaked during the reigns of Akbar r 1556-1605 Jahangir r 1605-27 Shah Jahan r 1628-57 and Awrangzib r 1658-1707 Then in 1739 the Iranian ruler Nadir Shah sacked Delhi carrying back to Iran the riches of the Mughals “ their library treasury and even the fabled Peacock Throne More than anything this was a devastating psychological blow from which the Mughals never recovered Source p632 Chronicle of the World Editor Jerome Burne Held by the Chester Beatty Library Dublin century 17 http //warfare2 likamva in/Moghul/17thC/Moghul_17thC htm author PD-Art Bahadur Shah I Paintings of Mughal emperors Uploaded with VicuñaUploader | ||||
