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Kotah artists learnt their skill at painting elephants from Ajmer artists. Both Kotah and Ajmer are in Rahasthan in North Western India. This is a painting from Ajmer.

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© Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA

Here the Raja is shown in an outdoor activity. He is exercising his sacred black buck. He has a typical Rajasthani face and his costume is Hindu because it fastens under the left arm. He wears the katar (stabbing dagger for hand-to-hand combat) in his waist band. His servant, holding the Rajah’s sword, is shown much smaller in the background.