Dara-Shikoh Shooting Nilgais: Hunt and Landscape in Mughal Painting

Title: Dara-Shikoh Shooting Nilgais: Hunt and Landscape in Mughal Painting
Author List: Ebba Koch
Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Publication Date: 1998
Publication Type: book
Format: print (softcover)
Pages: 58
ISBN: 9789998272521
Collection Area(s): South Asian and Himalayan Art
Dara-Shikoh Shooting Nilgais book cover
Description:

This is the first analysis of the imperial Mughal hunt, its significance, its changing hunting techniques, its justification, its erotic and mystic connotations, and its representation in painting.