Writing about art and Lahore
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin is an author and art historian whose work includes the visual history of Lahore and the Punjab region. His professional website describes a career in chartered accountancy alongside books on Pahari painting, maps, Lahore and diplomacy. The two fields are distinct parts of his career, even where both involve careful work with records. His website is an author’s own account of his publications and experience; library catalogues and the books themselves offer independent ways to check publication details and examine his interpretations.[1]
Paintings and Sikh portraits
In an essay on the Fakir family of Lahore, Aijazuddin identifies his books Pahari Paintings and Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, published in 1977, and Sikh Portraits by European Artists, published in 1979. He describes the latter as a study of paintings in the Princess Bamba collection. These works offer routes into collections connected with Punjab’s artistic and political past. A portrait can be studied as an artwork and as a historical source, but its attribution, date, sitter and later ownership should all be checked before using it as evidence.[2]
A history of Lahore
The Tuli Research Centre’s catalogue lists Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19th Century by F. S. Aijazuddin, published by Mapin in 2004. His own website also lists writing on the city and on regional maps. A bibliographic record can help a reader distinguish a particular edition from another work with a similar title; it does not itself establish every argument in the book. Researching the city through images, maps and written accounts raises questions about who created each source and why. Comparing his work with other histories of Lahore can broaden the perspectives available to a reader. The catalogue also identifies Ahmedabad as the location of the book’s publisher.[3]
Sources & notes
Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.
- F. S. Aijazuddin. Books and biography ↗Written source · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Career and research. Accessed 2026-11-03.Institutional catalogue, biography or dated publication inspected.Return to Writing about art and Lahore, paragraph 1 ↑
- F. S. Aijazuddin. The Fakir Family of Lahore ↗Written source · Source date: 2002-07-28 · Locator: Portrait books and family history. Accessed 2026-11-03.Institutional catalogue, biography or dated publication inspected.Return to Paintings and Sikh portraits, paragraph 1 ↑
- Tuli Research Centre. Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19th Century — catalogue record ↗Research centre book catalogue · Source date: 2004 book edition; catalogue page date not established · Locator: Object 00802007: title, author, Mapin publisher and Ahmedabad, first edition and ISBN. Accessed 2026-11-05.The catalogue record was rechecked for its book title, author, publisher, location, edition and ISBN. The book itself was not examined in this pass.Return to A history of Lahore, paragraph 1 ↑
Record PH-PEO-0260 · English edition · human review not performed