Book cover of Early Modern Literatures in North India. The image on the cover shows Balwant Singh seated writing on a camp-bed. It is attributed to Nainsukh, c. 1760.

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Bocchetti, Annalisa: The World Is a Masterpiece: The Symbolism of Painting in the Citrāvalī by Usmān (1613 CE), in Nagasaki, Hiroko, Horstmann, Monika and Okita, Kiyokazu (Eds.): Early Modern Literatures in North India: Current Research 2022–2024, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025, p. 91–112. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553.c22776

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Annalisa Bocchetti

The World Is a Masterpiece

The Symbolism of Painting in the Citrāvalī by Usmān (1613 CE)

Annalisa Bocchetti specializes in early modern Indo-Islamic literary cultures, focusing on vernacular Sufi narratives. She now researches South Asian folk and oral traditions at "L'Orientale" University of Naples.