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<\/a>Saqt Gaur Suhai in Persian<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n M.A. Rahman Chughtai had great plans for pictorial history. An article appeared in a local literary magazine. Then after his death, Chughtai Museum published his research to that date. The book was a block buster. Very soon we ran out of print. We published a second edition too. This was distributed free of cost by Chughtai Museum. It generated upheaval in research work. Students and scholars borrowed information from it. In fact, a few PHD thesis written owed their debt to this little booklet. An English edition was made but has not been printed yet. It reveals to the world a plethora of artists of Lahore, unknown and unresearched. It even revealed that there were streets named after artists in Lahore itself. We even had reference of a mohalla and gali of Sheikh Basawan the Mughal mussawar. Our finances are meagre, but our ideas are unlimited in scope. We will continue work on same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Mir Mannu Governor of Punjab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mir-Mannu-by-Aftab-Mussawar1-649x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Mir Mannu by Aftab Mussawar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Gaur Suhai were the first signed miniatures of a Punjab artist. M.A. Rahman Chughtai collected signed works as an obsession. We published a book on\u00a0Gaur Suhai, who signed his works in Persian language as “saqt Gaur Suhai”, with his links to Muslim courts. Two works were with N.C. Metha, a collector of Bombay. A few works by Lahore based painters, who migrated from Lahore, and were ancestors of Chughtai’s first wife, Wazeer un nisa, of Chowk Nawab Wazeer Khan. One of them was\u00a0ELIA NAQASH, and his work is in a museum too. We are working on these features ourselves. Our collection was noticed by Dr Karl Khandalavalla. Scholars like Bautze as well as B.N. Goswamy went through our book.Excellent work these people are doing on their own. Surely no one is free of bias. Truth is inevitable!\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Not the first book at all<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dabistan-Mussawari-1024x664.jpg\")
<\/a>Dabistan Mussawari<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI OBSESSED WITH REGIONAL PICTORIAL HISTORY;RESEARCHED ON “DABISTAN MUSSAWARI” OF LAHORE AND ITS OFF-SHOOTS. An article on the background of pictorial history generated by both artists of Lahore as well as other artists of the Punjab. The pitfall was that as in other ways of life, the two-nation theory came here in this … Continue reading M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI OBSESSED WITH REGIONAL PICTORIAL HISTORY; RESEARCHED ON “DABISTAN MUSSAWARI” OF LAHORE AND ITS OFF-SHOOTS.<\/span>
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