A Celebration of Love

A Celebration of Love: The Romantic Heroine in the Indian Arts, edited by Harsha V. Dehejia, brings together essays on the nayika, or romantic heroine. Paintings, sculpture, poetry, dance and music offer different ways of understanding her presence.

The illustrated volume considers the meeting of romantic emotion and devotion across Indian artistic traditions. It is a study of art and aesthetics, not a relationship-advice manual or a single-author romantic novel.