A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso), c. 1760-70. Attributed to Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s), Ahmad al-Husaini. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, wide borders of pink paper (recto); gold on blue paper, four lines of thuluth calligraphy (verso); page: 28.2 x 24.1 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.). Hindu women had been prominent members of Mughal harems since the time of Akbar, whose chief queen was a Hindu princess from the kingdom of Amber (later renamed Jaipur) in present-day Rajasthan. Under golden stars and a crescent moon, this royal palace woman holds a flower garland to offer at a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva. The light of butter lamps casts a shadow behind her figure; experimentation with the depiction of shadows, typically absent in earlier Mughal painting, increased among artists during the 1700s.