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Nandalal Bose “Village Huts,” 1928. Watercolor and wash on paper © National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Source: An Indian Modernist – The New York Times > Art & Design > Slide Show > Slide 4 of 12 nytimes.com.
Date Visited: 22 March 2020
Bengali literature celebrated the natural, healthy Santal way of living, the black lissome Santal women providing a counterpoint to the pale cloistered ladies of urban Calcutta.
Source: Partha Mitter. The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922–1947, p. 29
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eBook | Free catalogue: Museum of Santal Culture (Bishnubati)
eBook | Free catalogue: Banam: One of the ancient musical instruments of the Santals
Santal | Santali language | Santali script – Ol Chiki
The Santhal family and the invention of a subaltern counterpublic
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