

Mai Nakain’s apartments, courtyard (photograph by AA). Mai Nakain’s apartments, ground-floor courtly fresco (photograph by AA). Mai Nakain’s apartments, fresco of Guru Gobind Singh (photograph by AA). Maharani Mai Nakain (collection unknown, Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Ranjit Singh and wives (Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Scene from the Persian epic the Shahnameh: Rustem slaying a dragon with Guru Nanak and Guru Arjan depicted in the borders (SC). Golden Temple, Amritsar (photograph by Kay v11, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).

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