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The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings

Mandakranta Bose

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Description:About the BookThe images presented in this book take us into the heart of the rich folk tradition of India. Of that heritage, the display of paintings accompanied by comments recited or sung has been a part since very early times, as attested by references and legends in Sanskrit sources, including the Harṣacarita, a 7th-century work by Bāṇabhaṭṭa. Known as paṭacitras or paṭas in short, these illustrated narratives on rectangular fabric or paper as well as on scrolls are a type of performed art that reaches out to audiences, mostly rural, conveying the artists’ responses to legends and social themes of common knowledge across a wide range of audiences from varied social and cultural bases. A particularly powerful class of such paintings that come from the Bengali-speaking region of eastern India comprise the depiction of events from the Rāmāyaṇa in the form of scrolls that are unrolled as the painter displays and explicates them. The vividly colourful images presented in this book occupy a special niche in the history of Indian art, remarkable because they are not only visual objects but narrative expositions of a text that has been part of the lives of vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance. Especially remarkable is that these paṭas by Bengali folk painters diverge so often from the magisterial Rāmāyaṇas of ādikavi (“First Poet”) Vālmīki, leaving out important parts of it and importing into the Rāma saga episodes from local narrative caches. Following conventions of both art and storytelling as they do, these portrayals constitute what is now recognised as the tradition of counter-Rāmāyaṇas that embodies alternative alignments of ethical judgment. About the AuthorMandakranta Bose is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and also of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr Bose holds a BA and MA in Sanskrit from Calcutta University, a second MA in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia and the MLitt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from Oxford. Her research over the past fifty plus years covers four main areas: Sanskrit treatises on the performing arts, the Ramayana, Hindu dharmaśāstras and religious culture and gender representation in the arts and literatures of India.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings. To get started finding The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 140

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Publisher: Niyogi Books

Release: 2017

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Description: About the BookThe images presented in this book take us into the heart of the rich folk tradition of India. Of that heritage, the display of paintings accompanied by comments recited or sung has been a part since very early times, as attested by references and legends in Sanskrit sources, including the Harṣacarita, a 7th-century work by Bāṇabhaṭṭa. Known as paṭacitras or paṭas in short, these illustrated narratives on rectangular fabric or paper as well as on scrolls are a type of performed art that reaches out to audiences, mostly rural, conveying the artists’ responses to legends and social themes of common knowledge across a wide range of audiences from varied social and cultural bases. A particularly powerful class of such paintings that come from the Bengali-speaking region of eastern India comprise the depiction of events from the Rāmāyaṇa in the form of scrolls that are unrolled as the painter displays and explicates them. The vividly colourful images presented in this book occupy a special niche in the history of Indian art, remarkable because they are not only visual objects but narrative expositions of a text that has been part of the lives of vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance. Especially remarkable is that these paṭas by Bengali folk painters diverge so often from the magisterial Rāmāyaṇas of ādikavi (“First Poet”) Vālmīki, leaving out important parts of it and importing into the Rāma saga episodes from local narrative caches. Following conventions of both art and storytelling as they do, these portrayals constitute what is now recognised as the tradition of counter-Rāmāyaṇas that embodies alternative alignments of ethical judgment. About the AuthorMandakranta Bose is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and also of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr Bose holds a BA and MA in Sanskrit from Calcutta University, a second MA in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia and the MLitt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from Oxford. Her research over the past fifty plus years covers four main areas: Sanskrit treatises on the performing arts, the Ramayana, Hindu dharmaśāstras and religious culture and gender representation in the arts and literatures of India.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings. To get started finding The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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