A Splendid Land

Dipti Khera, PhD: Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Trained in architecture, museum anthropology, and art history, Dipti Khera has published on Indian painting, colonial taste and design, and early modern mobilities revealed through vernacular travel objects. Khera's The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2020) was awarded the American Institute of Indian Studies' Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in Indian Humanities. Among her many collaborations, "The 'Long' 18th Century?," coedited for Journal18 (Fall 2021), addresses periodization and pedagogy; and projects with the City Palace Museum (Udaipur) and the Abhay Jain Granthalaya (Bikaner) expand the conservation, digitization, and exhibition of lesser-known artifacts.

Debra Diamond, PhD Elizabeth Moynihan Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art: A specialist in Indian court painting and the visual culture of yoga, Debra Diamond has published extensively on Indian painting as well as on photographic landscapes and contemporary Asian art. Among Diamond's many award-winning exhibitions are Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur (2008), Yoga: The Art of Transformation (2013-14), and Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (2017-22). She also served as editor for the museum handbook Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer|Sackler (D Giles Ltd, 2017).