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Aitken, Molly Emma.         The intelligence of tradition in Rajput court painting / / Molly Emma Aitken. . – New Haven [Conn.] : : Yale University Press,, c2010.         xi, 340 p. : : ill. (some col.) ; ; 29 cm.         Includes bibliographical references and index.         Introduction: the intelligence of tradition -- Structures of desire: an introduction to the court paintings of Rajasthan -- Interpreting style -- The formalities: form and function in Mewar portraiture -- Repetition and response: the case of Layla and Majnun -- Chokha's shringara (amorous) style: the painter as interpreter of his tradition -- Conclusion: the lives of Rajput pictorial forms from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.         ISBN9780300142297 (cloth : alk. paper) :         ISBN0300142293 (cloth : alk. paper) :         1. Miniature painting, Indic.         1. Rajput painting.