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INDIA, CIRCA 1625-30 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the governor dressed in a green jama and orange trousers, facing right, with salmon-pink and dark blue borders and wide buff margins, identification inscriptions in gold devanagari and black nasta’liq in the lower margin, the reverse with old inventory numbers in black devanagari Painting 6 7/8 x 3 5/8in. (17.5 x 9.3 cm.); folio 16 ? x 11in. (41.3 x 28cm.)
The Afghan Pir ‘Pira’ Khan Lodi rose to power under the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and became one of his most esteemed chieftains. He was given the title of ‘Khan Jahan’ by Jahangir and made governor of the Mughal territories in the Deccan in 1625. However, he went on to accept a bribe from the sultan of Ahmednagar in the Deccan, known as the Nizam Shah or Nizamulmulk, and ceded some Mughal territories to the sultan. Khan Jahan also fell completely out of favour with Prince Parvez, elder brother of Shah Jahan, when he failed to support the prince’s accession to the Mughal throne. Shah Jahan became Emperor in 1628 but Khan Jahan distrusted him and became openly rebellious. He was hunted by imperial troops and finally killed at Sahenda, north of Kalinjar in central India on 3rd February 1631. (Beach and Koch, 1997, p.174.) The gruesome beheading of Khan Jahan Lodi is the subject of a well-known illustration in the Windsor Padshahnama, folio 94b, painted by the Mughal master artist ‘Abid in circa 1633 (ibid., cat.16, pp.50-51).
