The Lives of Women in Paintings from Mughal India

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 7:00–8:00 p.m.

Location: 242B Indian Painting

Meet at the Information Desk in the Atrium

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Speakers

About The Event

Join curator Sonya Rhie Mace and historian Ruby Lal for an in-gallery tour and conversation on the lives of women in paintings from Mughal India dating from the 1500s to 1800s.

In addition, on the following evening, Thursday, August 29th, 7:00 p.m. at Loganberry Books, at a free Author Event, Lal introduces her new book, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan, in conversation with Mace. This first-ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic Mughal-era adventurer and the multicultural society in which she lived. She led a voyage of harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea, and wrote her own account of the journey. Vagabond Princess breathes new life into a daring historical figure and offers a portal to a richly complex world.

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