The third and concluding lecture in series called “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness in Early Modern Eurasia,” “Translating the Mughal Court” presents how South Asian states, beginning with the Sultanates of the sixteenth century but largely the Mughals or Timurids, were depicted in European visual representations, which artfully drew on a combination of ‘etic’ and ‘emic’ devices.
All three Flexner lectures will be illustrated with contemporary visual materials.