The Bharat Brand – The History and Patronage of India’s Artisanal Luxury Products Shanane Davis journeys with the audience through India’s long history as source for many of the world’s finest luxuries. She speaks of how India for centuries dominated global trade in exquisite artisanry: its perfume was sought by Continue Reading
Phenomenal She Award
At the Constitution Club of India on the 7th of March, 2021 Shanane Davis was honoured with being recognized as one of the 100 leading ladies of India for her contribution to Indian art and material culture. The reception was organised by INBA, The Indian National Bar Association. The Honourable Continue Reading
Rajputana Collective – Adhiraj Singh Devra, Shooting to Thunder
Rajputana Collective meets up with Professional Shooter and Shooting Instructor Adhiraj Singh Devra and writes on his unique story and Teaching Style. Olkaan Nishtah
Colonial-Period Court Painting and the Case of Bikaner
Molly Emma Aitken, Archives of Asian Art, Volume 67, April, 2017. ©2019 Duke University Press. All Rights Reserved. Nineteenth-century court painters in India’s princely states reconfigured traditional portraiture to address British, Indian courtly and local values and conventions. At Bikaner, a father and son, Rahim and Chotu, experimented with a Continue Reading
The Laud Rāgamālā Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting
The Laud Ragamala Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting is a tale of two present-day “Indiana Joneses”art historian Professor Molly Emma Aitken and Connoisseur Shanane Davis who made an extraordinary discovery regarding the most famous Indian muraqqa (album book with miniature paintings and calligraphy) found in a European Continue Reading
Old Methods in a New Era What can Connoisseurship Tell us about Rukn‐Ud‐Din?
Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis, Yana van Dyke Book Editor(s): Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton First published 26, July, 2012 – Copyright 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Chapter available for purchase following the below link https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396355.ch10 Olkaan Nishtah
The Bikaner School Usta Artisans and Their Heritage
Foreword (2008) Molly Emma Aitken Ph. D. Between the late-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the Hindu courts of present-day Rajasthan, which were ruled by a warrior caste calling themselves Rajputs or “sons of kings,” patronized an extraordinary tradition of paintings on paper. Executed in mineral and vegetable pigments, these paintings were Continue Reading
Travel Writers Radio — Shanane Davis Connnoisseur Preserves And Revives Historic Indian Arts -Bridgett Leslie
Shanane Davis is passionate about the preservation and revival of historic Indian arts and connoisseurship. Cherishing the tradition of material cultural education, she has revived 46 different sophisticated Indian art mediums over the past decade. Her education centre Olkaan Nishtah in India is a budding centre for students, scholars and Continue Reading
The Essential Steps to Buying an Engagement Ring
Your partner is a rarity inside and out, and you want an engagement ring worthy of them, but while you know your beloved, you know little if anything about precious metals and gems. We are here to help you with a step-by-step guide to finding the ring that is right Continue Reading
About us and Olkaan Nishtah
The words Olkaan Nishtah come from the Marwari Rajasthani language of present-day north-west India. When translated into English, Olkaan Nishtah means, loyalty, elegance, devotion, dedication, faith, and adherence as a connoisseur. What does this mean and why is it important to us and to others? The founders of Olkaan Nishtah come from families that Continue Reading