Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso), from a Kalighat album

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto); Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Rama and Hanuman, Holding an Uprooted Tree, Rescues Sita (recto), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto); Das Avataras, Ten Incarnations of Vishnu (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Savitri and the God of Death Yama

anonymous

Krishna and Gopis

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar

Women Play Music for Radha and Krishna: Chitrini Nayika, from a Rasikapriya

Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa

Krishna Stroking Radha's Feet (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Krishna and Two Women in a Garden

anonymous

"Krishna and the Gopis on the Bank of the Yamuna River", Folio from the "Second" or "Tehri Garhwal" Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd)

Unknown Artist

Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a leopard, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night

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

Sugriva challenges his brother Vali, King of the Forest Dwellers, to a duel, folio 10 from the Kishkindha Kanda (Book of Kishkindha) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur, Court of Dayadhata (reigned 1700–1735)