How a fading Benares dynasty commissioned North India’s greatest Ramayana paintings

While Europe was focusing on mass slaughter and colonising the world, North India’s courts produced the magnificent Kanchana Chitra Ramayana. It froze in its art a dazzling, diverse regional world-one that seems increasingly distant today. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how artists from Awadh, Jaipur, Delhi and beyond came to Benares to create the most glorious visual Ramayana ever made.
Sources: Bayly, Christopher Alan. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Singh, Kavita (ed.) Book of Gold: The Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Benaras. Bengaluru: Museum of Art and Photography, 2023.
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[@deepakswarup2287]

Thank you for the information. Where can one see this amazing working.

[@eliotanderson6554]

Culture keeps on changing

[@shahabanwer7429]

Awesome story telling, great going Mr kanesetti

[@sus10651]

Please do more educational videos on the Mamluks Sultans of Delhi. Most religious violence occurred/instigated under that dynasty than all other combined. At least that's what I think. Open to changing my mind if proved with concrete facts and not circumstantial evidence.

[@dudedecor9953]

Source?

[@dudedecor9953]

You should read his book lo Lord of the Deccans, its almost all Hindu, jain, buddhist kings and yet there's great amounts of violence. Have you even read the Mahabharata?

[@eshaan1110]

@@dudedecor9953 While I agree with most of what you wrote, the Mahabharata is not history. Let’s not mix history and mythology. We’re supposed to be smarter than that in the 21st century

[@libshastra]

Today we have to imagine The great works of Benaras dynasty because Congress and its secularist buried this great history to please the patarbaaz. Before Modi, any mention or celebration of Indic art, culture or civilization was seen as communal. After Modi, the folks who used to join the Congress to oppress Indic culture are coming out to acknowledge it’s beauty and existence.

[@dudedecor9953]

There were 565 kingdoms in india at the time of the British, how many do you want in the school book?

[@libshastra]

@@dudedecor9953all of them of course. People of India need to know about the atrocities of the Nizam, Razakars, Mughuls and other Islamic kingdoms.