Education, fine arts and architecture

Medieval Indian education, art, and architecture expressed the values of courts, temples, mosques, and village communities, and they trained the administrators, scholars, and craftsmen on whom states depended. Learning took place in madrasas and maktabs, in temple schools and mathas, and in the households of teachers, while painters, musicians, and builders worked under royal and noble patronage. A concrete example is the Mughal atelier, where Hindu, Jain, and Muslim painters collaborated on illustrated manuscripts such as the Akbarnama. Together, education and the arts reveal both courtly splendour and everyday devotional life.