Phula Singh Akali. Inscribed as above. Note: Phula Singh was a member of the ascetic sect, Akalis, who wore blue garments and a steel quoit round their turbans. He was a wild rebel and defied Ranjit Singh. He led a mob which attacked Metcalfe in Amritsar in 1809 and attacked Multan in 1816. He...
Lal Singh. Inscribed as above. Note: Brahmin. Favourite and lover of Rani Jindan. Chief Minister Lahore, 1845. Instigated Shaikh Imam al-Din, Sikh Governor of Kashmir, not to surrender Kashmir to Gulab Singh. Arrested and tried by British, December 1846. Exiled to Benares.
The Qutb Minar, Delhi; in the foreground an Englishman on horseback with a servant. By a Delhi artist, c.1848. Inscribed in Persian characters on border below picture: ‘Burj i Masjid i Quwat al-Islam. Naqsha i Minar Qutb Sahib Burj i nau sakht’ (Tower of the Mosque ‘Quwat al-Islam’. Picture ...
Timur (ruled 1369-1450). Inscribed: ‘No.1. Timour Shah. First Padshah reigned Sixty Years’; in Persian characters: ‘Timur Shah auwal badshah ta shast sal saltanat namudand.’
Add.Or.3101-3113 13 miniatures depicting Mughal emperors of India and Nadir Shah. Head and shoulders in profile. By a Delhi artist, c.1815. Inscribed ...
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Add.Or.3101-3113 13 miniatures depicting Mughal emperors of India and Nadir Shah. Head and shoulders in profile. By a Delhi artist, c.1815. Inscribed on back with names and notes in English and Persian. Water-colour on ivory, oval; 3.5 by 2.75 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. ...
Babar (1526-30). Incorrectly inscribed in late hand in red ink: ‘No.2. Shah Alam - or Bahadur Shah - the first of the six Mogols of the declining empire - reigned 1707-1712’; in black ink: ‘Should be Baber.’