A splendid land: paintings from royal Udaipur

Contents

Foreword by the City Palace Museum / Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar -- Foreword by the National Museum of Asian Art / Chase F. Robinson -- Essays. -- A splendid land / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Unscrolling the history of Mewar Kings / Cynthia Talbot -- Mannered Mods: sound and sense in Mewar painting and poetry / Richard Williams -- Cultural landscapes and the creation of mood / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Conserving the City Palace Museum Complex at Udaipur / Shikha Jain -- From ideal to encountered worlds. -- In the beginning.... Udaipur painting in the seventeenth century / Catherine Glynn -- The architecture of ambience in the eighteenth century / Dipti Khera -- Genealogical scroll of the rulers of Mewar -- Moods of place. Lake Pichola and the Aravalli mountains / Dipti Kera -- Lake palaces and pleasure / Dipti Khera -- Inside the City Palace / Dipti Khera -- Celebrations in the Manek Chowk -- Debra Diamond -- Moods of the Kacheri Mahal / Shailka Mishra -- Beyond the palace gates / Dipti Khera -- "The mood of Nahar Magra" / Debra Diamond -- Immersive Terrains: Tikhaliya Magra and Ubeshwari / Debra Diamond -- Social networks. The moods of diplomacy / Dipti Khera -- "The pleasures of Sirdar Singh" / Dipti Khera -- Social terrains: Devale and Sobhagpur / Debra Diamond -- Mapping royal weddings / Debra Diamond -- Moods of devotion. -- Heaven on earth / Debra Diamond -- Blind poet, divine sight / John Stratton Hawley -- The mood of desire / Molly Emma Aitken -- "The mood of Shri Eklinghji" / Dipti Khera -- Krishna in Kankroli / Shailka Mishra -- Navratri celebrations outside the city / Shailka Mishra and Emma N. Stein -- Cosmos and the lake city / Caroline Widmer -- Time and mood. -- Monsoon moods / Dipti Khera -- Monsoon imaginaries / Debra Diamond -- Monsoon terrains / Debra Diamond -- Springtime celebrations / Dipti Khera -- The duration of ambience / Debra Diamond -- Traveling light: photographs from Udaipur / Robin Owen Joyce -- Back matter. -- Behind the frame: conservation at the City Palace Museum / Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah, P.M. Vasundhara, Saloni Ghuwalewala, and S. Girikumar.