Anuja Mukherjee
M.A in Anthropology student, Columbia University New York City. Email: anuja.m@columbia.edu
Volume 4, Number 1, 2020 I Full Text PDF
Abstract
Kalighat Patachitra is a style of paintings that came into being in nineteenth century Calcutta after which its active practice died out by the beginning of the next century. My detailed focus in this article will be Kalighat Paintings and its emplotment in the question of national identity, with the loss of ritual importance, defamation and eventual museumization.
Keywords: Kalighat Patachitra, fragmentation, nationalism, folk art.