Featured on PDR in the essay The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Mughal emperors in India faced a sartorial quandary: continue wearing their traditional Central Asian attire, or adopt the lighter cotton clothing of this warmer clime? Simran Agarwal considers the cultural, political, and theological implications of embracing Indic fashion, arguing that — by donning the clothing of their subjects — the Mughal emperors fashioned themselves anew.
Also appearing in the essay…
Jahangir attributed to Bichitr depicting the Mughal emperor preferring the company of a Sufi shaykh to kings
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ca. 1615–1618
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