File talk:Swami haridas TANSEN akbar minature-painting Rajasthan c1750 crp.jpg

I am glad to see this painting on Wikipedia. I took the original version of the photograph reproduced here in 1979 in Udaipur, when collecting paintings for an illustrated edition of the Kama Sutra. The picture was published in the book the following year, 1980, in May. The edition was "The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra" translated by [Indra Sinha]. The publisher was Hamlyn under its Spring Books imprint. The picture researcher was my wife. We set up a tour that began in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay and took in museums and art galleries in Baroda, Udaipur (where this picture was photographed), Jaipur and Delhi. At the end of the tour we did not have enough pictures and were lucky to meet up with art expert Lance Dane who graciously made his entire collection of miniature paintings available to us. Lance was himself at the time working on an edition of Kama Sutra with the great Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand. Despite the shock of both sides on discovering that we were all engaged in the same errand, they generously let us have free choice of the pictures. This painting, of the Emperor Akbar listening to the singing of Tansen, was one of our great finds. The other was a beautiful Basolhi painting of a girl coming to her lover's room through the rain. Both these pictures are in the edition of Kama Sutra noted above. Sorth (talk) 20:19, 25 January 2011 (UTC)