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Manager of the Preservation Unit at the NFAI for granting us access to archive prints. We are also grateful to the National Film Development Corporation for giving us access to their prints of Mammo and Salim Langde pe Mat Ro. Special thanks go to Urmila Joshi, Chief Librarian at the NFAI, for her invaluable and timely help with research materials and references and for responding instantly to pho^e re(luests for clarifications even as the book was going to press. We would also like to thank Lakshmi lyer and Arti Karkhanis for furnishing film stills. We thank Aruna Arora, Librarian at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, for her instant responses on requests for books and materials, and making sure that we had what we needed. We would like to thank Kavita Singh for giving us references on Mughal art, and Najaf Haider for stimulating discussions and responding to requests for clarifications. Indira Chandrasekhar at Tulika Books has been an inspiration to work with. Enthusiastically supportive of this book from the very beginning, she has worked round the clock on the editing, formating, photographs and proofs, and it is due to her that you hold this beautiful book in your hands. We would also like to thank Rani Ray for her work on editing and proofing the text. We are extremely grateful to Ravinder Singh for his prompt responses and wonderful work to produce most of the stills in this book. Thanks are also due to Ravinder Randhawa for his work on the stills, and to Swara Bhaskar and Ravinder Randhawa for their untiring work to create and obtain the film prints from which a number of the stills were made. Swara Bhaskar also worked on the proofs, the glossary and the credits of the films, and we would like to thank her for her work.

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