Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947Describes the princely courts of India during the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, and shares paintings from each period |
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User Review - idiotgirl - LibraryThingOrdered this book after my trip to India and finishing the book "Reading Jackie." This is one of the books edited by Jackie Kennedy during the 1980s. Wonderful plates of miniatures. With contemporary ... Read full review
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User Review - TerryD.Hooker - LibraryThingA very nicely illustrated work, with many coloured illustrations, text to go with the illutrations are informative, which is really what I had expected, the general text is not as in-depth as one might like, but that is compensated by the illustrations. Read full review
Contents
The Indian King | 29 |
Rajput Painting | 86 |
The British Period | 131 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947 |
| Author | Naveen Patnaik |
| Publisher | Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Nov 2006 |
| ISBN | 0385199929, 9780385199926 |
| Length | 192 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / India & South Asia History / General Law / Courts Travel / Asia / India & South Asia |
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