From Stone to Paper

Crisp, engaging, and lavishly illustrated, this book is not a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century Mughal architecture, but a thought-provoking methodological contribution to the field of Mughal studies and to ongoing conversations on the global eighteenth century. -Laura E. Parodi, caa.reviews Shortlisted for the 2019 Kenshur Prize for the best book in Eighteenth-Century Studies, sponsored by the Indiana Center for 18th Century Studies Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Award, sponsored by the College Art Association In a bold new cultural history, Dadlani traces how Mughal architectural style was canonized over the 18th century, just in time to become one with the very idea of India in the Western imagination. -A. Azfar Moin, The University of Texas at Austin Professor Chanchal Dadlani has produced the first full-length book on 18th-century Mughal architecture whose buildings are often dismissed as unworthy of study. Her exciting and richly illustrated volume provides deep insight to this period, making us rethink our fundamental understandings of the later Mughals. -Catherine B. Asher, University of Minnesota From Stone to Paper is a passionate and lucid scholarly argument for the vitality of late Mughal architecture and urbanism and for its crucial significance on the historical trajectory of South Asian transitions from early modern to modern and contemporary periods. -Sussan Babaie, author of Isfahan and Its Palaces