TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rika Maria Pauwels,Heidi
TI  - The voice of the Indian Mona Lisa: Gender and culture in eighteenth-century Rajasthan
SN  - 9781009201650
AV  - DS461.9.B36 R55 2023
PY  - 2023///
KW  - Bani Thani,
KW  - Courtesan
KW  - India
KW  - Kishangarh
KW  - Biography
KW  - Kishangarh (India)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Kishangarh (Princely State)
KW  - Rajasthan (India)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Making of the "Indian Mona Lisa" -- The Queen and the Slave Girl -- Becoming the Prince's Concubine -- Synergy of the Literary Couple -- Legacy: Self-Fashioning and its Limits
N2  - "Through literary and art-historical analysis, Pauwels brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century. Reconstructing how Bani-thani came to be acclaimed as "India's Mona Lisa," she conveys new insights in the history of Hindi literature, devotion, palace women, and social mobility of the enslaved"--
ER  -