Contents: 1. Remembering a guru/Satya Prakash Gupta, Ahsan Raza Khan and Deshraj Singh. 2. The Delhi of the Mughals prior to Shahjahanabad as reflected in the patterns of imperial visits/Ebba Koch. 3. The Mughal institution of Jharokha/R. Nath. 4. Conversion to Islam and formation of castes in medieval Rajasthan/S. Inayat A. Zaidi and Sunita Zaidi. 5. The problem of authentic portraits of Nur Jahan/Asok Kumar Das. 6. Characteristics and social mores of the Banias in medieval India/B.L. Bhadani. 7. Origins of the Mughal school of painting/Som Prakash Verma. 8. Functions and status of composers, writers and engravers - a study based on epigraphs/Pushpa Prasad. 9. The profane and the sacred: "Judgement of Paris" and "God the father" in the Mughal school of art/A. Jan Qaisar. 10. The attitude of the Chishti saints towards women during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries/Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui. 11. An appraisal of the musical art at Shahjahanabad during the first half of the eighteenth century/Madhur Trivedi. 12. Views of Abul Fazl on the "Birth" of metals/Iqbal Ghani Khan. 13. A note on the sculptures of the Raj Samudra Lake in Rajasthan/Neelima Vashishtha. 14. New light on Indigo production technology during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries/Ishrat Alam. 15. Aspects of hydraulic engineering in medieval Rajasthan: a case study of water-system in Jaigarh fort/Rajiv Sharma and Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi. 16. The Mughal elite, their building activities and cultural values/Mohammad Afzal Khan. 17. Some observations on masonry bridges in Mughal India/Ravindra Kumar. 18. A note on women in Central Asia: 13th-15th century/Mansura Haider. 19. The Hindus and the Dargah of Ajmer, A.D. 1658-1737: an overview/S. Liyaqat H. Moini. 20. The craft of gardening in Mughal paintings: an abstract/A. Jan Qaisar.

[Ahsan Jan Qaisar is Professor of Social and Cultural History, Aligarh Muslim University. His books include The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture, A.D. 1498-1707 and Building Construction in Mughal India--The Evidence from Painting.]

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