A wonderfully detailed note from a man whose whole family is sick to a physician. Requesting prescriptions and a specific remedy (marham nakhlī = date-palm ointment) from the inventory of the hospital (maristān) geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

Stumbling across trippy paintings in the archives. Polo match being contested between the gods, including Lord Krishna and Hanuman. Why should royal princes have all the fun?

Keshavdas wrote: it was tinted yellow in a field of champa flowers, and embraced the banana tree along the way. The gentle breeze, crisp and fragrant, was cooled by a waft of camphor. It blew right by her and carried off her composure, too.

Oh, you thought camouflage outfits were a twenty-first century fashion trend ? #FindingFashionForwardMen

The ajab joys of being back in the archives - The title reads: عجیب و غریب طاقت کی دوا

New blog post: Events and Awards gives details of recent lectures, book launches and medal awards. It also announces the winner of 2022 Bayly Prize. Congratulations to Sonia Wigh Sonia Wigh royalasiaticsociety.org/events-and-awa…

The painting that I would like to call ‘The Multiverse of Hindu Pantheon’ - From the Harivamsa - the clash of the great Garuda and Airavata is as grand as one would imagine #archives

The only delightful thing about moving into early 19th century archival collections is the discovery of snippets such as these - ‘Either this is an error, or it is the vulgar pronunciation of the word Shafakat’ #OnceAnAcademicAlwaysACritic From John Rylands Research Institute and Library

What a way to leave your mark on a manuscript #FaceInAManuscript #doodle

The incredible sadness of not getting access to primary material in archives across North India.

Lucknow's 153-year-old Amir-ud-Daula library has been fully digitalized. 100s of manuscripts in Turkish, Persian, Sanskrit, Prakrit& Pali, dating back to many centuries have been digitised. 80,000 books and 27,000 e-magazines r digitised. #bibliophile Pic: Gautam Trivedi

Looking for botanicals - and finding this painting of jungle babblers (turdoides striata), a common Indian, grey-coloured, insect-eating bird. Love how the lower bird has been rendered with a green grasshopper in its beak.

Found this gem of a book in a lovely bookstore in Meerut. A whole sexist, misogyny-filled tale depicted through 8 plates between the ‘Girl who has never been kissed’ - to heats going ‘bump-Bumpity-bump’.

A Sayyid dynasty 'mahal' dating to 1418 was razed secretly to build a new mansion by Delhi Jal Board . indianexpress.com/article/cities…

آن دلبر بوالعجب که ماه زیباست بالای علم چو گل به شاخ رعناست That heart-stealing acrobat who’s as pretty as the moon, Has the grace of a hoisted flag like a rose upon the vine artgallery.nsw.gov.au/colle ction/works/9644/

Currently enjoying sifting through a manuscript full of these lovely vignettes. Enjoy a nineteenth-century image of a woman getting her shoe fixed #fashionhistory