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raja with 2 children & 3 ladies
1760 Pahari Painting from Guler @britishmuseum
coincidently dress of singers matches with #Tricolour #Tiranga
few stories by Shivani Ji detailed about courtesans spreading message of #Azadi & adorned #khadi to ignite spark or freedom movement
कैसे समझाऊं बड़ी नासमझ हो
हमसे ना जीतो गी रहने दो ये बाज़ी
A mughal offered portrait to lady, in effort to please her. She rejected.
She said कैसे समझाऊँ बड़े नासमझ हो
आये गये तुम जैसे सैकडो अनाड़ी
Song from film Suraj
1730 Painting Ducrot Collection
guess Awadh or Delhi?
जाने कैसे सपनों में खो गयी अँखियां मैं तो हूँ जागी मोरी सो गयी अँखियां अजब दीवानी भई, मोसे अन्जानी भई
पल में पराई देखो हो गयी अँखियां
Song of Film Anuradha by #LataMangeshkar
Ji in Raag Manj Khamaj?
Sleeping lady Mughal painting @NatAsianArt
Women at Night on Terrace
c. 1700-1720 Painting,
Made in Delhi or Uttar Pradesh or Deccan @philamuseum
Two royal ladies are made to come out of hangover of late night party? Herbal concoction to intoxicate them is served. ? Moon there indicate that still it's night.
Grain seller & wife, Painting from Trichinopoly, ca.1870 @V_and_A
reminds of days in village when we steal handfull of grains & took to shop, who weighed & gave what we ask, sweets गुड़ चना पट्टी patti पेठा मूँगफली लइया चबेना anything? Barter system it was
no packed uncle chips?
idealized beauty?
painting rendered in Kishangarh style @Sothebys lot214
eyes made it distinct & that's unique of Kishangarh
भीम हिडिम्बा Bheem Hidimba, event from महाभारत in Painting by Raja Ravi Varma, can it symbolize integration of indigenous community with elite group or ruling class? She wears marathi style saree nauvari?