Wall Paintings of Rajasthan

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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evince uniform interest. The Krishna-Lilā episodes, and legends from Ramayana, love-scenes, royal processions, hunting scenes, battle scenes, seasons and seasonal festivals, moonlit music parties on the marble terraces, secular scenes, animal fights and ladies' pastimes etc. are the main themes for the artist's brush. In this monograph the murals of the above cited places, with particular reference to an excellent nucleus of murals of the Nagaur Fort, are studied in situ and noted in detail--technically, stylistically and thematically. The fortyeight photographs of the murals of the sites mentioned above are reproduced here with detailed annotations and connotations in black-and-white.
Two coloured-plates and one line drawing for the Jacket of the book and some other drawings showing the detailed studies of the frescoes are also added.
The other murals which have been described in the text are not reproduced here. But they convey intrinsic charm and beauty of these delapidating and vanishing pictorial presentation
I am grateful to Mr. Kartik Shukla who accompanied me in my research tour to these historically and artistically rich places to photograph these murals.
I am also thankful to the University Grant Commission, Delhi, for awarding the most coveted Emeritus Professorship to carry out the research, when I was the Head of the Department of Painting at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. I am also grateful to the L. D. Institute of Indology for publishing my dissertation on the frescoes of Rajasthan with particular reference to the Nagaur Frescoes. I am equally indebted to Dalsukhbhai Malvania and Naginbhai Shah, Adviser and Director respectively of the Institute, for their valuable suggetions regarding the fine-production and its get-up.
-Yagneshwar Shukla
19, Ghosha Society, Ahmedabad-54 15th September 1979