This talk will be followed by a reception
honouring Prof. Bose’s services to CISAR.
Please RSVP. There will be food and dri
nks at the reception!
For hundreds of years India’s villages have bee n sites of rich cultural production\, especially paintings of varied forms\ , representing the imaginative\, spiritual and historical experience of com mon people. A particularly fascinating art tradition is that of the painted scrolls of Bengal in eastern India. These paintings on fabric mainly depic t mythical subjects but often contemporary ones as well. What is remarkable about these is that they are sequentially painted frames\, somewhat like the modern comic strip\, the whole scroll bu ilding up to a story. My special interest lies in the depiction of India’s great epic\, the Rāmāyaṇa. This ancient story appears in many versions all over India and even outside India. The scroll paintings from Bengal have th eir very special\, often very original way of shaping and telling the story . That is what I’ll be talking about with illustrations of the paintings.
Mandakranta Bose\, MA (Cal et UBC)\, MLitt\, DPhil (Oxon)\, is Professor Emerita and Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Resea rch at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. Dr. Bose is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Can ada. Her research interests comprise the textual tradition of performing ar ts of India\, Sanskrit literature\, the Rāmāyaṇa\, and gender studies.
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