THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Sumantra Maitra) - Among the Moguls
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Culture Among the Moguls VMFA’s finest display on one of the most elite empires. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Getty Images) “India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence,” currently showing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, is a great and rare exhibition that will be hard to replicate in the near future for various sociological reasons. In the greater Anglosphere and America, the decolonial left are a far cry from the empire-builders (and museum curators) of JP Morgan’s days. The know-nothing nativists of the right, on the other hand, do not know or care about anything foreign, much less about anything Indian, the current antagoniste social, and much, much less about anything Islamic, the ur-villain of our still…Open