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Synopsis An important aspect of Mughal art, besides architecture and painting, is the handicraft. All the colour and glamour, the refinement and elegance and the dazzling splendour of the court and domestic lives of the Great Mughals and their noblemen are the gifts of handicrafts. Indeed without the artifacts it would not have been possible for the Grand Mughals to bring down the, ‘Paradise on Earth’. In view of the growing interest in India handicrafts in modern times an appreciation of Mughal handicrafts gets a renewed validity. It, therefore, becomes our duty to study, understand and preserve what remains of this great treasury. The present work is an attempt to fill the vacuum in this field. It is for the first time that a book on Mughal Handicraft is being brought out, and superbly so. After a general discussion on the social political and economic conditions of Mughal India the author goes on to expound the sources of Mughal decorative arts and the designs of decoration and finally describes the various forms of Mughal handicrafts illustrating them with works found on archaeological sites in India and select objects preserved in museums and private collection all over the world-all this in fascinating details.