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COLE, H. H. Preservation of National Monuments. Delhi. Folio. 8.l., [1884] Coloured double-plate showing original design of painted ceiling in the Diwân-i-Khâs before being repainted in 1876.
The above plate is also to be found reprinted in Griggs' Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings, plate 33.
Monuments.
Preservation of National Agra and Gwalior. Folio. 8.l., [1885] Fresco painting, Tomb of I'timâd ud-Daulah, Agra, plates 1-3 (coloured). HENDLEY, THOMAS HOLBEIN. Decorative Art in Rajputana. Journ., Ind. Art., Vol. II. 1888 pp. 43-50, with 9 plates (7 coloured).
See p. 47, and the plates.
JACOB, MAJOR S. S. Fresco painting [as practised in Jeypore]. Professional Papers on Indian Engineering, No. 360, pp. 203207, with 1 folding coloured plate.
Thomason College Press, Roorkee, 1881 JACOB, COL. S. S. Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details. Folio, 12 vols.
London, 1890-1913 See Part IX.-Dados: with a note on the process of Fresco-Painting in Jeypore. Examples are shown on plates 49-58, and also in Part VII, plates 16, 23-28, and Part X, plates 1, 2 and 10. All coloured.
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KIPLING, J. S. The Mosque of Wazir Khan, Lahore. Journ. Ind. Art., Vol. II, pp. 17-18, with 5 coloured plates (3 double). 1887
Partly decorated with fresco painting.
SMITH, EDMUND W. Wall Paintings recently found in the Khwabgah, Fathpur Sikri, near Agra. Journ. Ind. Art., Vol. VI, pp. 65-68, with 11 plates (10 coloured). 1894
Decorative Paintings from the Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah at Agra. Journ. Ind. Art., Vol. VI. pp. 91-94, with 8 coloured plates.
1895
Reprinted in Griggs' Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings, [q, v.], with the addition of 11 coloured plates.
Wall Paintings from Salim Chisti's Tomb, Fathpur Sikri, near Agra. Journ, Ind. Art., Vol. VIII. pp. 41-44, with 12 coloured plates. 1898 Condensed from The Moghul Architecture of Fathpur Sikri, Part III.
Wall Paintings from the Jami' Masjid, Fathpur Sikri, near Agra. Journ. Ind. Art., Vol. VIII, pp. 55-57, with 10 coloured plates. 1899 Condensed from The Mogul Architecture of Fathpar Sikri, Part IV.
A NEW VIEW OF SHER SHAH SUR. BY SIR RICHARD C. TEMPLE, BT.
(Continued from page 164.)
Makhdum 'Alam of Hajipur, a strong partizan of Nusrat Shâh of Bengal against the latter's younger brother, Mahmûd, and Sher Khân had been friends from the time of Bâbur's Eastern Campaign, and when Nusrat Shâh died in 1532 and Mahmud Shah soon afterwards seined the throne, Makhdum 'Alam was glad of Sher Khân's assistance. Mahmûd's generals attacked Bihar and Sher Khân exhibited Parthian tactics, i.e., he declined battle before superior forces, raided, harassed, and judiciously retreated, inspired false confidence, and then suddenly attacked. This first success in direct battle gave Sher Khân that military ambition which was to make him eventually a great monarch.
Soon afterwards Makhdûm 'Alam was killed in another action, and the Lohânîs, to whom Sher Khan was still an upstart, succeeded in enlisting the sympathies of his whilom pupil, Jalal Khân Lohânî, in a conspiracy against him, which ended ineffectively in the anexpected flight of Jalal Khan and his Lohânî friends to Mahmûd Shâh of Bengal for protection. Sher Khan was accordingly relieved from an embarrassing position and became substantive ruler in Bihar, but he was by no means safe with the Mughals to the West and Bengal to the East.
