Ash Khehra

Painting Krishna's Kingship

This paper looks at the Dwarkadhish Temple in Mathura, built in 1814, and asks whether itspainted walls and ceilings can be read alongside the pichwai textiles used behind Shrinathji atNathdwara. I do not argue that one copied the other. I suggest that a fixed painted interior an...

Braj as Cultural Landscape: Sacred Geography, Pilgrimage and Landscape Change

India, or Bharat, is often described as one of the world’s oldest continuing civilisations. Its languages, traditions and religious life have come through long periods of conquest and political upheaval, and yet outsiders have often found it hard to see how cultural life here hol...