Keywords: The Great Mughal Jahangir’s Darbar.jpg Miniature pasted on an album leaf The Great Mughal Jahangir ™s Darbar India Mughal; c 1620 Miniature 32 Ă— 22 cm The close contact that had existed between ruler and subject in the simpler steppe societies had disappeared in the Mughals ™ extensive empire For this reason it was important for the people to be able to see the ruler or even appear before him in an audience “ the darbar On a throne under a tent we find Jahangir 1605-1627 surrounded by his courtiers and flanked by two yurt-like tents that hold noble female relatives The realistic but also quite stiff rendition of the figures might be explained by the fact that many individual portraits of leading courtiers were patched together in a presentation of this kind Inv no 20/1979 David Collection Museum Denmark 1620 http //warfare2 likamva in/Moghul/17thC/Moghul_17thC htm author PD-Art Paintings of Jahangir Uploaded with VicuñaUploader Tents in art of India |