Digital Rare Book:
Ragas and Raginis
By Professor O.C.Ganguly
Published by Nalanda Books - 1935
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Album leaf (recto). Ragamala. A: Woman with fireworks. B: Karnati Ragini. C: Karnati Ragini. D: Bhairavi Ragini. On paper.
18th century
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Drawing. Two lovers listening to music played by women. Drawn on paper. Nala and Damayanti (?).
18th century
Pahari Style (Pahari School)
This term refers to paintings created in the small Rajput courts of the Punjab Hills. While the Pahari region was occupied from the 7th century onwards,...
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A shaykh and companions listen to music at night. (c.1645)
La'lchand (artist, attributed)
Watercolour and gilt on paper
An album of 41 Indian paintings, chiefly from the Shahjahan period (1628-1658), expressive of the Mughal lineage of Shahjahan; with 37 calligraphic specimens by Mīr Alī-a...
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Digital Rare Book:
SANGITARATNAKARA OF SARNGADEVA
With Kalanidhi of Kallinatha and Sudhakara of Simhabhupala
Edited By Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri
Vol. I - Adhyaya I
Published by The Adyar Library, Madras -1943
Digital Rare Book:
The Ragas of Karnatic Music
By N.S.Ramachandran
Published by University of Madras - 1938
The logic of the theory of Karnatic Music cannot be understood without a historical study of its development. Such an estimate would show that even from remote ages the North and South wer...
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New Book:
Ragamala: Paintings from India
By Anna L. Dallapiccola, Catherine Glynn, Robert Skelton
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers - 2011
Ragamala is a unique form of Indian miniature painting developed by combining a variety of sources including musical codes and accompanying poetry to ind...
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RAGAMALA Paintings are a series of illustrative paintings from medieval India based on Ragamala or the 'Garland of Ragas', depicting various Indian musical modes, Ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India.
Lizzie Watson, exhibition curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, traces the origins of this genre of Indian miniature painting back to its roots in ancient Indian music
For 400 years it was one of the most prolific genres of Indian miniature painting, ye...
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A leaf with two Ragamala Illustrations: ASAVARI RAGINI AND MEGHA (?) RAGINI, India, Deccan, Hyderabad, circa 1760
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a double-sided leaf, each page with text above the miniature in red and black nast’aliq script on cream paper, red borders, recto numbered in l...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Song of Songs : From the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva
By Edwin Arnold
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1875
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An illustration to the Gita Govinda: Radha procee...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Kādambarī of Bāna
By Bana Bhatta and Bhushana Bhatta
Translated by Caroline mary Ridding
Published under the patronage of Royal Asiatic Society, London - 1896