Friends of Mewar founder, Padmaja Kumari Parmar, spoke at a special event at Princeton University on October 27, 2022 in collaboration with the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India & Princeton University Art Museum.

The lake city of Udaipur in northwestern India, the sixteenth-century capital of the Mewar court, flourished through the management of natural resources and experiments in art.

Padmaja spoke on living heritage and Dipti Khera, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, discussed how representations of places from Udaipur trace the major shifts in India’s long eighteenth century. There were welcoming remarks by Anu Ramaswami, Director of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, and the conversation was moderated by Zoe S. Kwok, Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.