This unprecedented exhibition - the first in the United States devoted to the artistic production of a single Rajput court - offers a unique view of pre-modern India through seventy paintings, drawings, and utilitarian works of art from the royal collections of the former state of Kotah (modern Rajasthan), one of the most prolific artistic centers in north India from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

A Craftsman Making a Toy Matchlock of Wood, Attributed to the Kotah Master, c. 1730 Rao Madho Singh Trust Museum, Fort Kotah Cat. 26

Following its showing at the Sackler, Gods, Kings, and Tigers will travel to the Rietberg Museum in Zurich. Gods, Kings, and Tigers: The Art of Kotah was organized by the Harvard University Art Museums and the Asia Society, New York to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence.

Support for Gods, Kings, and Tigers has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, federal agencies, Corning Incorporated, Metropolitan Life Foundation, the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc. and the Edward Austin Waters Exhibition and Special Project Fund.