Observe the image and answer the following question.
This painting is a folio from which illustrated Mughal manuscript?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Baburnama
The painting shown is Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior by Bhure. It is a folio from the Baburnama, the autobiography of Babur, the first Mughal emperor.
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NCERT (2026-27): “Early Mughal Painting …Babur’s detailed accounts in Baburnama, his autobiography, are narratives of the emperor’s political carrier and artistic passion. Baburnama reflects the love and fondness that Babur had as an outsider for the Indian land and ecology.…”
Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior, Bhure, Baburnama, 1598, National Museum, New Delhi |
