A City of Lakes: Udaipur’s Painted Past and Present Heritage

The lake city of Udaipur in northwestern India, the sixteenth-century capital of the Mewar court, flourished through the management of natural resources and experiments in art. Join this two-part presentation with Padmaja Kumari Parmar, a daughter of the House of Mewar, speaking on living heritage and Dipti Khera, Associate Professor of Art History at New York University, discussing how representations of place from Udaipur trace the major shifts in India’s long eighteenth century.

This event is cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the M. S. Chadha Center for Global India.

Free registration here.