Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot trying to prevent Sita’s abduction (recto); Battle Scene at Kurukshetra from the Mahabharata War (verso)

Battle Scene at Kurukshetra from the Mahabharata War (verso), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot trying to prevent Sita’s abduction (recto), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Illustration of the Mahabharata

India, Maharashtra, Paithan School, early 19th Century

Illustration to the Mahabharata

India, Maharashtra, Paithan school, c. 1800

“Royal Hunt,” folio from a Mahabharata

Unknown Artist

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

Sindhu Raga

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar

‘Paithan’ (Chitrakathi) narrative painting

anonymous

“Harishchandra and his Minister Killing a Tiger,” folio from a Harishchandra Series

Unknown Artist

Tijgerjacht

anonymous

‘Paithan’ (Chitrakathi) narrative painting

anonymous

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Rama and Sita in the Royal Palace (recto); Radha and Krishna (verso)

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy