Description
These images and video show the painters at work, with the natural colours they made themselves. The panels of the scroll were painted collectively by the chitrakar community over several days.
In this video we interview the women painters (Jahanara Chitrakar and Ushiara Chitrakar) as they reflect on their lives as women running a household and making time to earn a livelihood through their craft.
Creator
Chitrakar, Dukhushyam
Chitrakar, Jahanara
Chitrakar, Rabbani
Chitrakar, Rahim
Chitrakar, Rahman
Chitrakar, Ushiara
Source
William Hunter, The Annals of Rural Bengal (New York: 1868), chapters 2 and 5, appendices A and B.
Hunter, Famine Aspects of Bengal Districts, p.26 (cost of 1770 famine).
John Shore, "Still fresh in memory's eye the scene I view", in Hunter, Annals, p.28, and Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John Lord Teignmouth, by his Son (London, 1843), Vol. i. pp. 25, 26.
Anonymous, "Nad nadi khal bil shob shukailo", in Suprasanna Bandopadhyay (ed), Itihasashrito Bangla Kobita, 1751-1855 (Calcutta: 1954). Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800.
The Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800 database.
Publisher
University of Exeter
Date
2020-01
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Halder, Bhagirath
Holding, Richard
Mondal, Sujit
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Rights
CC BY-NC
Format
Natural colours on cartridge paper backed with cotton cloth
Type
Making of scroll
Duration
1 month
Event Type
Making of scroll