Description
This is the structure followed by Dukhushyam Chitrakar while composing the poem for the scroll painting. It is based on the research notes, source translations, summaries, and discussions with Ayesha Mukherjee and Sujit Mondal.
Creator
Chitrakar, Dukhushyam
Mondal, Sujit
Mukherjee, Ayesha
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.
Publisher
University of Exeter
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Rights
CC BY-NC
Format
Text
Language
Bengali
Coverage
Bengal, India; 1769-70