This chronicle of the wall painting tradition under the patronage of Mughals and their contemporaries in Rajasthan, Central India and Deccan focuses on a refreshingly new aspect of Indian art history. Divided into 9 Chapters the text revolves around an analytical study of all the major examples out of which 243 illustrations form a cardinal segment of this ground-breaking volume. An eminent scholar of Mughal art and culture, Asok Kumar Das has dealt the subject with great insight, combining a wealth of evidences from the primary sources of history and interpretation of stylistic evolution of the wall painting technique based on extensive field-work research data.

Dr. Asok Kumar Das served the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur as the Director. He was also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow; Satyajit Ray Chair, Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Visiting Professor at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Hart Fellow, Smithsonian Institution; Getty Museum Scholar, Los Angeles; Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Visiting Scholar, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and Dar al-Atharyya, Kuwait, and Tagore National Fellow at the Indian Museum, Kolkata.

The thrust areas of his research and publication are Mughal and Rajasthani art and cultural history on which he has published books and portfolios, research papers, articles and reviews in leading Indian and foreign art journals. This publication is an outcome of the research work on Mughal Wall Painting, which he undertook during his stay at Jñāna-Pravaha Centre for Cultural Studies & Research, Varanasi as a Resident Scholar in the years 2015-2016.