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Molly Emma Aitken is a scholar of South Asian art and architecture. Her specialty is Mughal and Rajput painting (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). Aitken has published a number of articles on this subject and is most recently the author of The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (Yale University Press, 2010). Her curatorial experience includes an exhibition of South Asian jewelry, organized by the Asia Society, entitled When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection . The exhibition has travelled widely. Aitken is currently Assistant Professor of Asian Art at The City College of New York. Frederick Asher is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. His research interests extend across the history of South Asian art, from issues related to contested space to the visual culture of the Indian Ocean as well as the historiography of the field. Among his books are ones on the art of eastern India and the site of Bodhgaya. He has held offices in the American Institute of Indian Studies, the College Art Association, and the National Committee for the History of Art. He is currently writing a book on the sites associated with the life of the Buddha and co-authoring a book on Indian history. Susan S. Bean PhD is the Curator of South Asian and Korean Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, home of the Herwitz Collection of contemporary ... log in or subscribe to read full text