The most striking of all is Tailangi Ragini (1680-85), an early Pahari ragamala miniature. Against a bright yellow background sits a bare-breasted woman in a motif-speckled dhoti. Pearl necklaces decorate her body; strings of jewelled bands dangle from her arms. A male servant carefully oils her outstretched arm. His eyes, writes Losty in the book, “are torn between fixing them on his work and shyly looking up at her.” The woman, however, openly, almost daringly, meets his eyes.