It takes the average reader 5 hours to read The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The 'Indian Mona Lisa' is an eighteenth-century portrait of the goddess Radha from the Kishangarh school of Rajput Painting. It was purportedly modelled after a young enslaved woman and court-performer, Banī-ṭhanī, who became a concubine of the patron of the painting, crown-prince Savant Singh. Tracing her career, Heidi Pauwels recovers her role as a composer of devotional songs in multiple registers of Classical Hindi and shows how she was a conduit for trend-setting styles from Delhi, including the new vogue of Urdu. Through a combination of literary, historical, and art-historical analysis, she brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century by reconstructing how Banī-ṭhanī came to be acclaimed as the devotional poetess Rasikbihārī and as 'India's Mona Lisa'. This major new study conveys important new insights in the history of Hindi literature and devotion, the family, palace women and the social mobility of the enslaved.
The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels is 295 pages long, and a total of 75,225 words.
This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 51 minutes to read The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa aloud.
The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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