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Hindu women had been prominent members of Mughal harems since the time of Akbar, whose chief queen was a Hindu princess from the kingdom of Amber (later renamed Jaipur) in present-day Rajasthan. Under golden stars and a crescent moon, this royal palace woman holds a flower garland to offer at a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva. The light of butter lamps casts a shadow behind her figure; experimentation with the depiction of shadows, typically absent in earlier Mughal painting, increased among artists during the 1700s.</div>
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Ahmad al-Husaini</div>
between circa 1760 and circa 1770 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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