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100			_aPauwels, Heidi Rika Maria _9332194
245			_aThe Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa : _bGender and culture in eighteenth-century Rajasthan
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023.
300			_axvi, 278p.
520			_aThe 'Indian Mona Lisa' is an eighteenth-century portrait of the goddess Radha from the Kishangarh school of Rajput Painting. It was purportedly modelled after a young enslaved woman and court-performer, Banī-ṭhanī, who became a concubine of the patron of the painting, crown-prince Savant Singh. Tracing her career, Heidi Pauwels recovers her role as a composer of devotional songs in multiple registers of Classical Hindi and shows how she was a conduit for trend-setting styles from Delhi, including the new vogue of Urdu. Through a combination of literary, historical, and art-historical analysis, she brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century by reconstructing how Banī-ṭhanī came to be acclaimed as the devotional poetess Rasikbihārī and as 'India's Mona Lisa'. This major new study conveys important new insights in the history of Hindi literature and devotion, the family, palace women and the social mobility of the enslaved.
650			_aCourtesan--India--Kishangarh _9811079
650			_aKishangarh (India)--Intellectual life--18th century _9811080
650			_aKishangarh (Princely State)--Intellectual life--18th century _9811081
650			_aRajasthan (India)--Intellectual life--18th century _9811082
650			_aCourtesan--Biography--India--Kishangarh _9811083
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