Indian painting, especially that of the Mughal dynasty, is often considered among the most magnificent creations of the Islamic world, and is a highly prized commodity to many collectors, including Nasser D. Khalili, whose extensive collections include Indian art, Japanese art, Spanish Damascene metalwork, and Swedish textiles. This sumptuously illustrated volume on Indian painting is the eighth of a projected twenty-seven that documents the massive Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Leach provides detailed documentation and description of the seventy-six paintings and manuscripts that compose the Indian portion of the Khalili collection. Most of the works included here come from the Muslim courts of India, most notably that of the Great Mughals (1526–1858), but also from the courts of the Deccani Sultans, those of eighteenth- to nineteenth-century splinter states such as Murshidabad. Rampur, and Lucknow, and some examples from the Mewar court, a Hindu Rajput state in western India. Khalili’s Indian painting collection is unusual, for unlike most truly significant Indian ones it was not amassed over an extended period of time; rather, the paintings in this volume have been collected only since the 1970s. Included are some masterpieces of the sort that define an excellent collection of Indian...