The image shown here was painted centuries after the people and setting it claims to depict. It is therefore unreliable as a literal reconstruction of fifteenth- or sixteenth-century India. It remains useful as evidence of how a nineteenth-century artist imagined the earlier period. The distinction separates a picture's subject from the historical moment in which the picture was created.
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Why a later painting is a weak source
A nineteenth-century image can reveal how later artists imagined India, but it is poor evidence for what the fifteenth or sixteenth century looked like.