Garden & Cosmos are two metaphors for two remarkable cultural & aesthetic impulses at the Marwar Court between the 17th and mid-19th centuries, capturing the sensuousness of royal court gatherings & pavilions, idyllic landscapes, Hindu deities & lush gardens - all encompassed within the desert reaches of northwest India. Art historians Debra diamond & Catherine Glynn bring new scholarship to bear on this subject with supplementary contributions from Jason Freitag & Rahul Jain. This is a large, sumptuous book. It also includes, as a separate enclosed item, a guide for the V & A Exhibition : 'Maharaja the Splendour of India's Royal Courts'.