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020 $a9789385285554$q(hardback)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn967550781
035 $a(OCoLC)967550781$z(OCoLC)1008179045
035 $a(NNC)13262257
037 $aLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
040 $aDKAGE$beng$erda$cDKAGE$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dBDX$dBTCTA$dYDX$dDLC$dERASA$dWAU$dOCLCA
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050 4 $aND3399.V33$bB67 2017
082 04 $a745.674912$223
100 1 $aBose, Mandakranta,$d1938-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Rāmāyana in Bengali folk paintings /$cMandakranta Bose.
264 1 $aNew Delhi, India :$bNiyogi Books,$c2017.
300 $a139 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index.
520 8 $aThe 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 of since very early times, as attested by references and legends in Sanskrit sources, including the Harsacarita, a 7th century work by Banabhatta. Known as patacitras or patas 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 Ramayana 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 vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance. Especially remarkable is that these patas by Bengali folk painters diverge so often from the magisterial Ramayanas of adikavi "First Poet" Valmiki, leave out important parts of it and import into the Rama saga episodes from local narrative caches.
546 $aIncludes verses in Bengali (Latin) with English translations.
600 00 $aVālmīki.$tRāmāyaṇa$vIllustrations.
630 07 $aRāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01356702
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts$zIndia$zWest Bengal.
650 0 $aMiniature painting, Indic.
650 0 $aFolk art$zIndia$zWest Bengal.
650 7 $aFolk art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00928587
650 7 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00967235
650 7 $aMiniature painting, Indic.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01022749
651 7 $aIndia$zWest Bengal.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01213722
655 7 $aIllustrated works.$2lcgft
655 7 $aIllustrated works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423873
852 00 $boff,fax$hND3399.V33$iB67 2017g