The Magical World Of The Rajput Period
In India, writes William Dalrymple, the Rajput period (1750-1850) is remembered for violence, but recent exhibitions ‘reflect not a world at war but one seemingly lost in bucolic pleasure-seeking: a world where women eternally play on swings in pleasure gardens, lovers meet in dark
forest groves, and princesses gaze over palace balconies, pining for lost lovers, as monsoon clouds mass over the Himalayas.’
