Krishna weighed against precious objects(?) (verso), from a Kalighat album

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto); Krishna weighed against precious objects(?) (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the Bala Kanda (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra

The destitute Mukhtar meets his wife Maimuna at a holy shrine, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Hindu God Krishna Being Dressed in Women's Clothes for Spring Festival Holi

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Kangra

Yasoda Churning Butter (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras, charmed by the music of a vagabond, comes down to meet him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Radha's Hair Being Dressed

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Kangra

A group of women in ecstasy before Madhava, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh

The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Akrura Drives Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, from the “Isarda Bhagavata Purana”

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Isarda

Rama and Sita in the royal palace (recto), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Page from a Book of Omens

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