From Stone to Paper

A recently published book reveals how Mughal architects, artists and patrons built on the cultural legacy of their imperial predecessors to create the very concept of a historical style identifiable as ‘Mughal’.

- Aparna Andhare

The readers of Domus don’t quite need to be told about architecture as a means of articulation of power and identity in our times, but how did this work in the past? To find out, we step back into a span of time in the eighteenth century (a period of about 150 years, extending into the nineteenth century), with Chanchal B. Dadlani’s acclaimed From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire, published by Yale University Press last year.