The voice of the Indian Mona Lisa

• Verfasst von: Pauwels, Heidi Rika Maria [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The voice of the Indian Mona Lisa
• Titelzusatz: gender and culture in eighteenth-century Rajasthan
• Verf.angabe: Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels, University of Washington
• Ausgabe: First published
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xvi, 278 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-009-20165-0
• ISBN: 978-1-009-20168-1
• Schlagwörter: (p)Banī Ṭhanī
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Rika Maria Pauwels, Heidi: Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023
• Sach-SW: Asian history
• Sach-SW: Asiatische Geschichte
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
• Sach-SW: Hinduismus
• Sach-SW: Kunstgeschichte
• K10plus-PPN: 1831299623

Abstract

The '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, BanÄ"-á1hanÄ", 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 BanÄ"-á1hanÄ" came to be acclaimed as the devotional poetess RasikbihÄrÄ" 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