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Indra Dev, who ruled circa 1730 to circa 1760, is perhaps the most frequently portrayed of the rulers of the small state of Bandralta, just north of Mankot. See W. G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London 1973, vol. I, pp. 8-12; vol. II, pp. 12-13, nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5. No. 4 appears to feature the same distinctively-featured attendant. For a portrait of similar composition depicting an earlier ruler of Bandralta, Kailashpat Dev, circa 1730, see Sam Fogg, Indian Paintings and Manuscripts, Catalogue 21, London 1999, p. 83, no. 52.