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Kishangarh, Rajasthan, c. 1770 C.K. Kanoria collection, Calcutta
During the eighteenth century, Radha was often regarded as Krishna's permanent consort and was accorded divine honours--the present picture ill.u.s.trating her final apotheosis. Seated together, their heads surrounded by haloes, the two lovers display their courtly charms. Krishna has now the mannered luxury of a high-born prince and Radha, no longer the simple cowgirl, is the very embodiment of aristocratic loveliness. As the lovers sit together, their forms offset by a carpet of lotus petals, Krishna attempts to put betel-nut in Radha's mouth--the gesture subtly indicating their loving intimacy.
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Frontispiece. By courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and of Messrs Faber and Faber.
1, 2. Hendley, _Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition, IV, the Razm Namah_.
5. By courtesy of State Museum, Lucknow and of Mr. M.M. Nagar.
6, 12, 20, 28. Archeological Survey of India, New Delhi.
10, 19, 30, 33, 34. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
18. Stchoukine, _La Peinture Indienne_.
22, 26, 31, 38. Messrs. A.C. Cooper Ltd, London.
23, 24. By courtesy of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay and of Dr. Moti Chandra.
25. _Journal of Indian Art_, Vol. XVI, 116.
27. By courtesy of Mr. M.S. Randhawa, I.C.S.
39. By courtesy of Mr. Gopi Krishna Kanoria.
3, 4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 21, 29, 32, 35-37. Author's photographs.
