Insightful essays explore narrativity in Indian art, and are enlivened by sumptuous illustrations of paintings made between the 16th and 19th centuries from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection at The San Diego Museum of Art.

Marika Sardar former Associate Curator of Southern Asian and Islamic art at The San Diego Museum of Art.

Neeraja Poddar is the Mellon Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Qamar Adamjee is Associate Curator of South Asian and Islamic art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

Alka Patel is Associate Professor of South Asian and Islamic Art at the University of California at Irvine.