Introduction: Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Pre Modern India: Seema Bawa 1. Wine, Gods, Men and Women: Leisure in the Visual Culture of Early India: Seema Bawa 2. Dicing and Wrestling: Pursuit of leisure through chance and combat in early India: Suchandra Ghosh 3. Hunting and Dice-Game: Where Leisure Intersected with Masculine Aspiration in Early India: Smita Sahgal 4. A Royal Huntsman. The ambiguity of the hunt as aristocratic pastime in South Asia and its representation in Revanta imagery: Marion Frenger 5. Leisure in Ancient Indian Drama: An Act of Proximity with Nature and Self: Mrityunjay Prabhakar 6. From Service to Entertainment: Music in Early Tamil India: TKV Subramaniam 7.

Visualizing Leisure in Jain Manuscript Paintings from Western India: Patrick Kruger 8. Transitions in Leisure: Gardens, Hunting and Public Entertainment: Vipul Singh 9. Gardens As Urban Leisure Landscape in Early India: Prem Kumar 10. Sleep as Leisure: Perspectives from Persian Literature: Farhat Nasreen 11. Poetic Pleasure, She'r-o Sha'iri , in Women's Urdu compositions: A Neglected Chapter at the Margins of Gendered Histories: Raziuddin Aquil 12. The Last Mushaira of Delhi: A Study of a Text and Recreation of a Past: Rakhshanda Jalil.