Chandramani Singh

Dr. Chandramani Singh चंद्रमणि सिंह (5 Apr. 1940, Banaras (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India — 15 May 2022, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) was an Indian art historian, textile expert, writer and a museum archivist based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. 

Associated with Banaras Hindu University and Prakrit Bahrti Academy, she oversaw cataloging and organizing the collections at the Sawai Mansingh II City Palace Museum, the Jawahar Kala Kendra, the Albert Hall Museum, and was also involved in the restoration of the Jaigarh Fort, all in Jaipur.

Publications

• A Review of Basohli Style in Indian Painting, Jaipur, 1974
• Marriage songs from Bhojpuri Region, Jaipur, 1979
• Textiles and Costumes from the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur, 1979
• Centres of Pahari Painting, Jaipur, 1981 
• Woollen Textiles and Costumes from Bharat Kala Bhavan, Jaipur, 1981
• Pathways to Literature, Art, and Archaeology, Pt. Gopal Narayan Bahura Felicitation Volume, 1991
• Art Treasures of Rajasthan, Volume 1, Jaipur, 2004
• Visual Music — Ragamala Paintings of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 2005
• Protected Monuments of Rajasthan (Jaipur, 2002, digitized 2009)
• Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, 2009
• Udaipur Museum, Jaipur, 2009
• Museums of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 2010
• Visionary, Vision and Wisdom: Select Speeches from Palace Archives, Jaipur, 2013
• Women of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 2015
• Cittauṛa kī Mahārānī Padminī kī aitihāsikatā itihāsa aura maukhika paramparā para ādhārita sāhitya samanvaya, Surendra Bothara, Delhi, 2020 [The story of Padmavati, Queen consort of Ratana Siṃha I, Rana of Chitor, active 1303. Translated in English as Historicity of Padmini.]