Rama and Sita setting up their hut in Panchvati (detail). For the first time nearly 120 paintings from the British Library’s lavishly illustrated 17th century Ramayana manuscripts.

The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic.

The Mewar Ramayana manuscripts were produced between 1649 and 1653 for Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar in his court studio at Udaipur . Illustrated on the grandest scale, with over 400 paintings. Two volumes have been identified as being painted by the studio master Sahib Din, a Muslim painter who spent his life painting Hindu legends like Ramayana and Geet Govinda.