Glossary
Ragamala
Also written · ragmala
What is Ragamala?
A ragamala is a set of paintings that gives a figure to the modes of Indian classical music. Each raga or ragini is personified — a woman waiting at night, a hero in the rain — and the sheet usually carries a short verse naming the mode, its hour and its season. Sets survive from the Rajput and Deccani courts from the sixteenth century onward.
Objects catalogued under this term
No object in the published catalogue carries this term yet. The catalogue is being written object by object.