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Khan Kilan’s army was the vanguard and passed through the Rajput territory of Sirohi. The Rajput chief, Man Singh Deohra, sent envoys to Khan Kilan but at the end of their audience one of the envoys stabbed the Mughal general in the shoulder. Khan Kilan’s men leapt forward and killed the attacker and his companions. The composition was designed by the Mughal court artist Miskina and the painting done by Kesav Khord, or Kesav the Younger.\r\n\r\nThe <i>Akbarnama</i> was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605) as the official chronicle of his reign. It was written in Persian by his court historian and biographer, Abu’l Fazl, between 1590 and 1596, and the V&A’s partial copy of the manuscript is thought to have been illustrated between about 1592 and 1595. This is thought to be the earliest illustrated version of the text, and drew upon the expertise of some of the best royal artists of the time. Many of these are listed by Abu’l Fazl in the third volume of the text, the <i>A’in-i Akbari</i>, and some of these names appear in the V&A illustrations, written in red ink beneath the pictures, showing that this was a royal copy made for Akbar himself. After his death, the manuscript remained in the library of his son Jahangir, from whom it was inherited by Shah Jahan.\r\n\r\nThe V&A purchased the manuscript in 1896 from Frances Clarke, the widow of Major General John Clarke, who bought it in India while serving as Commissioner of Oudh between 1858 and 1862.","physicalDescription":"Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, an episode during the march of Khan Kilan to the Gujarat. The image is overlaid by a band of text extending from the upper left hand margin of the image. The Rajput chief,  Man Singh Deohra, sent envoys to Khan  Kilan but at the end of their audience one of  the envoys stabbed the Mughal general in the  shoulder. 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