Good afternoon, everyone. Now I am able to share my slight.
This is one of the first slide which I'm showing you, because Bachenheimer are actually the history of the region and I got my fellowship as strong.
You introduced me to work on the number of manuscripts of the British Library and the Oxford collection.
And this is one of the one of the manuscript issues,
because Sharjah is considered to be a very a period when the Empire wanted to have of show off so you could see what I had written there.
His actual name was Schaeffler. That means Joia son and successor of Emperor Jangi.
He ascended the throne. That is ten thirty seven.
That is equal to sixteen twenty eight. And these are his title, Abuse of Child with the Moment.
S Banana Sandwich. How about the father of the three state of religion, Lord of Auspiciously Preconvention.
King of the world, emperor. Volleyer of the faith. And perhaps this is the one.
So this painting is very Bodleian collection as well as it is there in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
But before going to Oxford, I have consulted a number of manuscripts which were already available here in India.
You could see one of the line, this collection. This particular manuscript which I consulted, belonged to have.
That is a very famous museums I museum. I'm just showing it to you.
And this we all know this is a Windsor Castle Library manuscript as we want for nine.
This is the only Panchen Lama, which is which is a which has got paintings about forty four, which has been edited.
And this is the first one. But we were looking for paintings of an online collection of Bodleian Library.
We could not come across that, but we had other albums which I'm going to show you.
And this is the same path from our which I have taken from holdbacks,
Oriental Public Library Partner, Volume three, which is written by Shefer Abdulhamid Lahoti.
They are written by the official custodians. This is also you could see that this was written very, very beautiful.
But here I am sure you because we were talking about Kollapen,
this is the part of the library Persian manuscripts which belong to a lawyer who was a British civil servant who was serving in India.
And this is one of the oldest since astronomers were very official histories.
So they are written directly under the guidance of the emperor.
A number of editors were involved. There was a whole team which was working with Abdul Hamid Lahoti, and you could see one of the editor here.
His photograph is there, will allow will to, because most of the albums which we called were also sometimes which are in Bodleian Library.
And I was lucky to sleep. Although this particular painting is not from Bodleian Library,
they have also got a number of calligraphy pencils and those calligraphy is mostly from the earlier period.
But this particular painting, which I am showing you, is of Alam Isabella, who was prime minister of Prussia.
He's holding an assembly, was extremely important person who is involved with a number of projects of interest.
There are two particular paintings of him which are there in the Bulgarian library's collection.
Ms. As we know, there was a mass collection, give a number of important paintings to the body.
And I believe this is very, very rare.
So the last painting is not found anywhere in any collection, including in the art, including not even some of the libraries of us.
So Saddam was one of the premier nobles. And here you is.
You could see him holding an assembly. He was involved not only in administration, but also he was a major person who was, you know,
most of the imperial projects, especially the construction work, was being done under him.
This this particular illustration is used to us by Andrew Topsfield in his book.
This is Bodleian Library, Oxford, a special collection of Sadullah MSDOS.
What a point three and the other thing is also they're holding a quote, which is MSDOS or the three Topsfield has introduced.
Sadullah has biography's found.
This is how I work, although all the manuscripts which are there in the Bodleian collection, they are not illustrated by two.
By using these albums, I could identify and only Topsfield have identified.
So Sadhana is one of the major nobble of Chaja because these are official histories.
They are concerned with the emperor, emperor, his family, his descent,
as well as they are concerned about the major premier nobles of the empire and one of the noble Sadhu Lahar, whose biography is yet to be written.
This description comes from Topsfield, but I'm taking you to some other thing,
and now I'm showing you one of the inscriptions, which is also written by Sagala,
how this inscription was originally the Red Fort, which is known as Billi Galloon in the contemporary sources that is the family for.
So he compiled this inscription, which is there in The Iliad, because all the manuscripts,
especially I constructed three Persian manuscripts of the Bosnian library.
One is one belongs to the one belongs to aliar collection and then the freezer collection.
And the other one is the Iliad Fraser.
And this particular comes from your collection. So then you will be reading this particular inscription.
It's not available now in the fall, but it is available only in the manuscript.
You could see the language because during the time of Shardlow you find that there is so much emphasis on, you know, on religious language.
You can find Suhana last full of Arabic verse, praise be to God.
How beautiful are these elegant mentions? Mentions are known as Manzanilla, Munsie, Rangeen and charming residences on the machine.
They are a part of high heaven. I myself, I sold. All angels are desirous of looking at them, so I translated it.
But I'll read some more to show that title of Islamic imagery is used throughout his saying that one
can walk around it like the holy cow about to a thief and like we go on kissing the glorious all.
So this this is very unique and this is the whole text because it is such a large inscription.
So I am escaping only telling some major points like it is describing the various buildings of the old Forcier.
You will see a bobbly Hayat Bachelet life best-run garden and he is saying this garden is like that,
but the soul is for the body and lamp to the assembly and the pure Canale.
We know that this word for the shutdown of the city, which was constructed by Shahjahan in between sixteen thirty to forty eight,
has a very special canale which was supplying water to the world for.
So it was known as a third. So this comes from, as I have written here, Sheikh Mohammad overresponse Shabnam about the library in your collection.
Three sixty eight for you for one two.
And this is one of the oldest bachenheimer which has survived anywhere in any collection known to me at least.
I have seen sixteen manuscripts, especially of the volume three, because this comes from advertisements for number,
which is volume three, because city of Jalalabad was constructed in sixteen thirty to forty eight.
We know that children are divided Israel into three parts, three decades.
And the history of the official history is also divided into three parts volume first two volumes written by Abdel-Hamid Lowri.
But these these volumes, the second the third one is written by Chef Mom advertize.
She has more advance as well as she Abdel Hamid Loudy.
They were all India born historians because although there is lot of union domination of Persian speaking, the meeting, the moral code,
but there is also the rise of India are born historians as shown in the life story of our
first and I found the historian was a student of force who was a historian of Schaefer,
who was a historian. But and these are some of the paintings which I took from the Digital Bodleian and some of the some of the parts I
would like to introduce you that what kind of age it was when I saw these the third volume in the Bodleian Library,
I. Found that there is a lot of appreciation for his own deeds because the entire bachenheimer is offered,
Shamala is roaming around or actually is concentrating upon the personality of the emperor.
There are detailed descriptions of all the buildings. There are detailed descriptions of all the campaigns.
There are transcripts written to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire or to Persia or there are details, written letters sent to the rulers of the can.
But, you know, everything is being done by the emperor. You will not find mention of others except living some of the leading noble.
One of the leading noble I showed you just now was was Sadullah.
So you will see that to hear the author. They are saying that this is an exalted book written directly under the guidance of the Emperor.
And this is a time when the art of architecture has reached something similar to Muntaha, as we know.
That said, Ratterman ties a foreign verse, which means the territory of most boundry.
That means something. They are they are proclaiming that to this this they are using as metaphor to proclaim
that the paradisiacal do and not shown the art of building have just spinet.
And actually, you will be interested to know that more more talk about Deli's heading Vol. three,
but volume one and two are concentrating when the capital was is still Agra.
So in the first and second volume, do you find a description of Taj Mahal, which has been utilised very well by Baguley,
as all of us know, and their desire and this particular Arabic proverb or all the form of mamma is using?
Excellent question, but there are some other big proverb also like there is a quotation which a historian
is very proud of when he's describing the monumental buildings of Shahjahan.
But he says that the Arabic over the work we leave behind will speak of us.
This is the preamble of the account of the city of Shahjahan about.
There are other teams also in position, which I studied, especially I concentrated on Shekhawat is the third volume of Khwaja number,
but the first and second volume are also having similar teams.
Obviously, the time is changing because Bojana Mazars governing period from 16, 28 down to 16.
Fifty eight. So they will start obviously the first volume will concentrate on his early life.
But later on, the themes of changing a biography of empire is very important because my sort of biography of the Emperor, also official biography,
which has got every detail of his children, their marriages, his own grief, death of life, everything is sort of biography.
But then there are themes in which historians are interested, like patronage of architecture.
There are detailed description of buildings.
There are graphic descriptions of every event in the imperial household, birth of a child, death of a child.
Marriage is everything we will find. And also important themes are like Qajar was very die hard imperialist.
So like occupation of birth is also there because the Moors believe that that is their homeland.
So there are diverse teams. I'm just showing you a picture of JAMA Masjid, which is the central mosque of Delhi here.
This was constructed under the direct supervision of Sadullah and the people hardly know about that, actually.
Who are the architects? Because for architects there is hardly any information.
But just for you, because this is the central most of Delhi and contemporary sources have forced Taj Mahal as we know he is.
Sharjah is more known for the construction of Taj Mahal,
but the scholars Viki Bagli NZF decide they have utilised and Taj source material from Bachenheimer to construct the Taj Mahal,
the the famous Tormore from Tasmin.
All of us know about it and then also added to it.
So this is the theme of the first volume in the second and third volume.
There is not much about Rosemann of what I actually the name of Taj Mahal is Nevada.
And here I, I'm sure you know, Taj Mahal. And also we will find discussion like what kind of material was used there?
Centerstone. It used to be created from McCrann.
And then we have got a lot of information about the declaration, Beltone Parchin Godi, which is known as Petrograd.
Whether it was Italian or Indian technik, it is difficult to decide.
But the historian, Indian historian, they say that it is actually an Indian technique,
but they are using Persian words for these decorative techniques, like some of the I like work Moonah, but Godi is full relief work.
But Jeanne. But God, Gardez for the Estonian torgeir, you have one that you metrical ornamentation.
They are used in the palace complex. So Lahoti as well as his successor Chef Sheaffe ladies,
he's also using similar similar terms for distribution of various buildings and techniques which were used in those buildings.
And as I said, that entire Bachenheimer is concentrating on every activity of the emperor and his likes and dislikes,
although it is difficult to read.
But Anoma the way they scholars have utilised Baba Rama, which has been translated into English all the way scholars have utilised Jahangiri now,
which has been translated into English and recently by text on Buckenham,
is a very difficult text because it describes each and every activity of the emperor according to the date and time.
So event, you know, just follow one after the other without describing what had happened.
So suddenly there will be information there.
Emperor Sharda loved flowers and that would be right because the historian is saying that Emperor is like a garden,
like a garden of German Emperor of the garden evolvable stop for India.
Obviously we find that during that, as a historian, especially the art historian, know that very well, that during the time of Shahjahan rain,
flowers began to be widely used as an ornamental motive for Texana in textile, in painting, in bookbinding, in architecture, in decorative arts.
So. This is how we can substantiate manifestations of architectural and artistic legacy of Shahjahan by instating
Shahjahan Na'ama and this one I am showing you because this is the only manuscript of my Shalimar,
the volume one which has been illustrated and which has been published a long time back by a number, is a collaboration of a number of scholars.
But actually this is the only one which has got forty four paintings,
the one in British Library I have seen carefully the one in Indian libraries or the Bodleian libraries.
They have got more illustrations and this is something because time will be less slimey.
Skipping this, there are descriptions like again for Delhi because I concentrated on volume three.
You will see that how the Red Fort is being described.
That is the present name. The actual name, as I said, was its name was different.
This is this was known as the liger. Do the heavily for this will do for in the form of the body of Pagone Moossa Mummy.
But the not exactly what was said about daddy, but art historians, they are trying to define or historians of architecture.
This is a term used by these guardians of Shijun in his E Sadhguru Museum, the head of Zax, Suryani Lubi Masculinist.
It is an astonishment even for those who have travelled and inhabited part of the world.
So places for Qandahar, places for his attunement, is integral part of the entire whatshername.
That sleights language becomes so difficult. Therefore, each and every sentence we have to struggle.
For instance, go fishing, I'm afraid we're running out of time.
Oh, I'm so sorry. No, it's okay. Thank you.
Thank you so much. I'm very sorry to cut you off.
It was a wonderful overview of the cultural norm and very beautiful descriptions of Shahjahan LaBarge from your translation's.