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Inscriptions in Gurmukhi identify the holy man whose attendant holds a peacock feather fan above his head as Namdev, and the figure opposite  him as 'badsaha turk', meaning the 'Turk emperor'. The story is referred to in the Sikh holy book the Guru Granth Sahib, in which the late-13th century Turkic ruler of the Tughlaq sultanate of Delhi challenges Namdev to resurrect a slaughtered cow. Divine intervention saves Namdev from having to make a choice between being executed or converting to Islam.\n\r\nThe woodcut belongs to an album containing 196 prints, paintings, pen and pencil drawings and 37 loose pages of paintings, calligraphic and other drawings. They were all collected by John Lockwood Kipling when he was Principal of the Mayo School of Art, Lahore from 1875 to 1893. The album was presented to the Museum by his son Rudyard Kipling in 1917.\r\n","physicalDescription":"The scene appears to illustrate the story of divine intervention of saving the 13th century religious figure Namdev from being converted to Islam or executed when the Tughlaq ruler challenges him to restore to life a slaughtered cow. Inscriptions in Gurmukhi identify the holy mand as Namdev and the other figure as' badasa turk', meaning the 'Turk emperor. An attendant holds a peack-feather morchhal over Namdev. 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The album was presented to the Museum by his son, Rudyard Kipling in 1917.\r\n\r\nGiven by Rudyard Kipling Esq., Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.\r\n\r\nR.P. 1917-2627M, R.P. 1917-2705M","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Sikh woodcut depicting the Tughlaq ruler of Hindustan visiting Namdev; Lahore or Amritsar, about 1870","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Popular Sikh","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"monarchs","id":"AAT237007"},{"text":"nobles","id":"AAT25942"},{"text":"religious (people)","id":"AAT25783"},{"text":"horses","id":"x34864"},{"text":"cattle","id":"x35205"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.2:146-1917"],"accessionNumberNum":"2","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1917,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-07-07","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":true}}